Novice Chinese as a foreign language teachers' identity construction in primary schools in New Zealand from positioning and affordance perspectives.

ABSTRACT: While there has been an increase in research on Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers' identity worldwide, limited attention has been drawn to CFL teachers' positioning and affordances to interpret their identity construction in an overseas context. To fill the gap, this study investigated seven novice CFL teachers' identity construction as Chinese language teachers in primary schools in New Zealand from positioning and affordance perspectives. Retrospective semi-structured interviews were adopted to understand how the novice CFL teachers were positioned, how they positioned themselves, and what affordances they perceived to be influential to their Chinese language teacher identity construction. The findings showed that the novice CFL teachers' identity construction was subject to t

SUBMITTER: Sun PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9706993 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature