Effective team teaching between local and native-speaking English teachers

Effective team teaching between local and native-speaking English teachers

• Carless, David University of Hong Kong
• Walker, Elizabeth Hong Kong Institute of Education

Language and Education, 20(6), 463-477, 2006

Routledge

2006

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MI Teachers from Mainland China, Teacher from Foreign Countries, Expatriate English Language Teacher Pilot Scheme
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language

Team Teaching Teacher Effectiveness Native Speakers English (Second Language) Second Language Instruction Teacher Collaboration Foreign Countries Case Studies Educational Philosophy Secondary School Teachers Interpersonal Relationship Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

This paper focuses on collaboration between native-speaking English teachers (NETs) and local English teachers (LETs) in Hong Kong secondary schools. It examines some of the strengths and weaknesses of NETs and LETs documented in the international literature. It reviews, in various contexts, schemes where team teaching has been carried out. Using case studies of selected effective practitioners augmented by recent published research, we discuss how native and non-native teachers worked together and how their collaboration impacted on themselves and their students. Our analysis elaborates on some inter- and intra-personal factors facilitating the team teaching, balanced by some of the dilemmas particularly with respect to educational philosophies. The paper concludes by arguing for relationships between particular features of the collaborations and theorised conditions for second language acquisition.
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2010-09-08