Mutual adaptation: Enhancing longer-term sustainability of cross-cultural in-service teacher training initiatives in China  

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Yan, Chunmei

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 36 no. 4 (Dec. 2008), page 586-606.
Topik: Longer-term sustainability; Cross-cultural teacher training programmes; Contributing factors; Con-straining factors; Measures; Cultural continuity; Mutual adaptation
Fulltext: p. 586-606.pdf (1.67MB)

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This paper reports on a study that examines decisive factors for longer-term sustainability of cross-cultural teacher training initiatives in China. It focuses on teacher trainees’ perspectives of a Sino-British adult education English language teaching project based in Central China. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were employed to gather information from the teachers who participated in the programme between 1997 and 2002. Documentation was used as a supplementary method of data collection. The findings indicate that the project has contributed to teachers’ professional development in a number of ways. Meanwhile, cross-cultural communication emerged as a salient issue for longer-term sustainability of the programme. The study indicates that cultural communication is of vital importance in implementing cross-cultural programmes, and that mutual understanding and adaptation might help to enhance the viability of such initiatives in China.

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