Russian Language Teachers' Professional Agency against the Backdrop of the New National Teaching Quality Standards in China: An Ecological Perspective

Autor/in	Tao, Yuan
Titel	Russian Language Teachers' Professional Agency against the Backdrop of the New National Teaching Quality Standards in China: An Ecological Perspective
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 23 (2022) 4, S.347-370 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tao, Yuan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1466-4208
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2021.1988420
Schlagwörter	Russian; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Majors (Students); Professional Autonomy; Educational Quality; National Standards; Vocabulary Development; Foreign Countries; Policy Analysis; Educational Policy; Systems Approach; Language Planning; Language Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Change; Teacher Characteristics; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Russisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Berufsfreiheit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Wortschatzarbeit; Ausland; Politikfeldanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Systemischer Ansatz; Sprachwechsel; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Bildungsreform
Abstract	With the 'New National Teaching Quality Standards' and its supplement -- the 'Guide for the Russian Majors Education' as language education policies, this paper argues that these policies have constructed an ecological environment for Russian language teachers' (RLTs) agency in China. The interpretive policy analysis, interviews and classroom observations of four RLTs help explore which environmental factors (the macro-system, exo-system, meso system and micro-system) impact their agency from an ecological perspective, and which factors are ignored by RLTs. The findings are: (1) (the ideology embodied in) these policies is (are) mandatory in terms of the vocabulary and text, and they set a macro (exo-) framework for and influence RLTs' agency; (2) The meso system (universities) has the greatest impact on RLTs' agency, which may access or deny the possibilities the macro-language policy may offer; (3) RLTs' dispositions and the Russian language department constitute a potential micro-system, and the role of this sub-system in RLTs' agency cannot be ignored. This study is of methodological, theoretical, and practical significance for research on the impact of language policy and planning (LPP) on the developmental environment for teachers of less-commonly-taught language in terms of LPP for the diversity of foreign language education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01