TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring American EFL teachers’ bicultural identity construction
T2 - theories vs. practices
AU - Wang, Ping
AU - Bellamy, William
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Foreign language teachers’ recognition of their identity is essential to their professional development. Drawing on bicultural theories, this study investigated two American teachers who recounted their experiences of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at a university in China. This study leverages the Two-directional Extension Model as the theoretical framework for analysis. It employs interviews, reflective journals, and field observations to collect data to seek ways of improving foreign teachers’ bicultural communication competence by exploring how the two American EFL teachers construct their bicultural identity. One major finding highlights the EFL teachers’ bicultural identity construction as a dynamic and ongoing process upon which several have effects, affecting professional development in higher education in China.
AB - Foreign language teachers’ recognition of their identity is essential to their professional development. Drawing on bicultural theories, this study investigated two American teachers who recounted their experiences of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at a university in China. This study leverages the Two-directional Extension Model as the theoretical framework for analysis. It employs interviews, reflective journals, and field observations to collect data to seek ways of improving foreign teachers’ bicultural communication competence by exploring how the two American EFL teachers construct their bicultural identity. One major finding highlights the EFL teachers’ bicultural identity construction as a dynamic and ongoing process upon which several have effects, affecting professional development in higher education in China.
KW - EFL teachers
KW - bicultural identity
KW - bicultural identity construction
KW - identity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111840259&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01434632.2021.1963120
DO - 10.1080/01434632.2021.1963120
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111840259
SN - 0143-4632
VL - 45
SP - 1241
EP - 1255
JO - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
JF - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
IS - 4
ER -