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Language teachers and the falling language standards in Hong Kong: An internet-based inquiry

  • Language teachers and the falling language standards in Hong Kong: An internet-based inquiry
  • Language teacher education in a multilingual context: Experiences from Hong Kong
  • Dordrecht
  • Springer Verlag
  • 2014
    • Hong Kong
    • 1997.7 onwards
    • Unknown or Unspecified
  • In this chapter, I problematize a widespread belief that teachers in Asian contexts including Japan and China are well protected by a tradition that reveres teachers. Instead I contend that cultural traditions, together with educational reforms and sociocultural changes, can also undermine the teaching profession. To this end, I report on an inquiry that explored the social censure of teachers, especially language teachers in Hong Kong. In the inquiry, I took advantage of an Internet discussion concerning the ‘falling’ language standards, a widespread concern in the region. The analysis of the discussion revealed the high expectations that the public had of language teachers as well as the increasingly complex conditions for teachers’ professional practices due to ongoing educational reforms and cultural changes.
    [Copyright © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht]
    • English
  • Book Chapters
    • 9789400773929
  • https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/18e26950
  • 2015-05-05

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