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To Be or Not to Be: Shifting Motivations in Chinese Secondary School English Teachers' Career Narratives
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Gao, Xuesong – Teacher Development, 2010
As English is now promoted as an academic subject in primary and secondary schools in China, creating an enormous demand for qualified English teachers, there is a need to understand English teachers' motivation and commitment to the teaching career. In this paper, the author reports on a biographical study of 12 teachers who taught in schools in…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, English Teachers