Narrative Inquiry into Language Teacher Identity by Takaaki H... - 9781032164779

Narrative Inquiry into Language Teacher IdentityALTs in the JET Program\nAuthor(s): Takaaki Hiratsuka\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032164779, 978-1032164779\nSynopsis\nThis book provides insights for both native language teachers and local language teachers alike who conduct team-taught lessons by revisiting the topic of foreign assistant language teachers (ALTs), the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, and team teaching.\n\nThis book is innovative in that (a) it is the first to elucidate ALTs experiences comprehensively, across both historical time ([url] prior to, during, and after the JET program) and social space ([url] inside and outside the school), thereby revealing their multiple identities that they come to construct and reconstruct over time, and (b) it explores the meanings and perspectives of particular phenomena that ALTs experience within their specific social settings from their own ind.