@inbook{43f3fbe86b0a4609904998a396f8fc35,
title = "Cross-Border Pre-service Teachers in Hong Kong: Identity and Integration",
abstract = "In this chapter, I report on a study investigating the construction of teacher identity of a group of mainland Chinese pre-service teachers of English in a Teacher Education Institute in Hong Kong. The study revealed that the participants experience and express opposing and potentially contradictory identities. They were found to negotiate their identities with the positionings from peers, students, prospective schools and social discourses. It was also found that they construct legitimacy in the professional community drawing on their own linguistic and cultural repertoire. This study offers a way of thinking about teacher formation as a process of identity development and extends understandings of the interconnected relations of discourse and identity in such contexts.",
keywords = "Cross-border pre-service teachers, Discourse, Teacher identity",
author = "John Trent and Xuesong Gao and Mingyue Gu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-7392-9\_3",
language = "English",
series = "Multilingual Education",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "35--49",
booktitle = "Multilingual Education",
address = "Germany",
}