Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters

Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities as teachers, learners, and language users, with different pedagogic, institutional, social, and political implications.

Angel M. Y. Lin, Jasmine C. M. Luk

Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Native-Speaking English Teachers (NETs) in Post-Colonial Hong Kong. The Native-Speaking English Teachers in the Global ELT Industry. Culture and Studies of Interaction. Understanding Cross-Cultural Classroom Interaction-An Ideological Framework. The Participants in Context. Making Sense in the Lessons. Having Fun in the Lessons. Performing "Teachers" and "Students". Implications-Toward a Pedagogy of Connecting for the Development of Intercultural Communicative Resources.