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John Trent – TESOL Journal, 2024
Considering the essential role of language teacher educators in shaping the views and practices of future generations of language teachers, the limited attention that has been given to how these educators construct their professional identities is surprising. This article reports the results of a qualitative study that contributes to addressing…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Educators, Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers
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Art Tsang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The recent decades have seen enthusiastic calls for reconceptualizing English as a foreign language (EFL) education, taking into account the current socio-lingual status of English and how it is used "genuinely" for communication interculturally and internationally. However, a wide gap still exists between promulgation such as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Listening, Dialects
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Rui Yuan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023
Despite a plethora of studies on how to teach critical thinking (CT) in different subject classrooms, there is limited research on how teachers foster their CT and learn to teach CT through pre-service teacher education. Such a gap gives impetus to the present study, which seeks to examine to what extent and how a group of student teachers are…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers
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Jeong-Bae Son; Moonyoung Park; Mei-Hui Liu – Online Learning, 2024
It is essential for second/foreign/additional language teachers to develop their digital competence in digital environments. This article explores language teacher development in digital technology integration in terms of exploration, communication, collaboration, and reflection (ECCR). It presents the results of a study that investigated how…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Faculty Development, Technology Integration, Second Language Learning
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Kevin W. H. Tai; Edsoulla Chung – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Purpose: Despite the growing interest in the applicability and value of educational research for improving educational policy and practice, few studies have demonstrated how English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teachers apply research findings in their second language (L2) teaching. This paper reports on a study in which four Hong Kong ESL teachers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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John Trent – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that used in-depth interviews to understand the experiences and perceptions of six pre-service teachers as they engaged in microteaching at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong. Using a framework grounded in dialogism and positioning theory, the study describes the ways in which different…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Microteaching, Teaching Methods
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Yuan, Rui; Yang, Min – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This qualitative multi-case study explores a group of university-based language teacher educators' boundary crossing experiences in Hong Kong. Informed by a conceptual framework on boundary crossing and drawing on data from in-depth interviews and field observations, the findings reveal the opportunities and challenges embedded in teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Language Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Trent, John – Research Papers in Education, 2016
This article reports the results of a multiple qualitative case study which investigated the challenges that seven early career English language teachers in Hong Kong confronted as they constructed their professional and personal identities. A series of in-depth interviews with participants during the entire first year of their full-time teaching…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gu, Mingyue – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
This article reports on a qualitative study investigating a group of novice ESL teachers' teaching experiences with ethnic minority students in secondary schools in Hong Kong. It finds that, while teachers argue that society has not been tolerant enough of ethnic minorities, they nonetheless believe that ethnic minorities should comply with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Minority Group Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Bai, Barry – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
Writing is a complex skill that requires effective teaching practices in the classroom. One of the challenges English teachers in the English as a second language (L2) context face is the lack of teacher experience in teaching English writing. This brief paper reports on a small-scale study on helping Hong Kong in-service primary school teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)
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Lam, Lydia S. T. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
This paper is about a qualitative research concerning a group of expatriates' (TEFL/TESOL English language teachers) experiences in Hong Kong. Data related to their life, attitudes and cultural dispositions are discussed under four different states, namely, Adaptation, Drifting in Global Comfort, Drifting in Global Discomfort and Bitter/Sweet…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning
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Trent, John – Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This article reports on a qualitative study that investigated the identity construction experiences of one group of beginning English language teacher educators in Hong Kong. Drawing upon a theoretical framework that incorporates both identity-in-practice and identity-in-discourse, and using in-depth interviews, a narrative approach was adopted to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Benson, Phil – Language Teaching Research, 2012
The literature on non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) and native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) tends to focus on their respective strengths, the main strengths of NNESTs being their experience of learning English as a second language and their familiarity with their students' language and educational background. This article proposes…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Preservice Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Trent, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
This article reports on a qualitative study that explored the discursive positioning of native-speaking English teachers (NETs) in schools in Hong Kong. It draws on insights from discourse theory to examine NETs' self-positioning, and their positioning by other stakeholders, as part of a dynamic process of identity formation. The participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Trent, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the lived experiences of a group of pre-service English language teachers during a teaching practicum in Hong Kong. Multiple, in-depth interviews with student teachers were conducted during a 6-week practicum to understand the students' experiences of becoming teachers. A contribution of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Self Concept, Professional Identity, Practicums
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