Tacit Rejection of Policy and Teacher Ambivalence: Insights into English Language Teaching in Bahrain through Actors' Perceptions

Autor/in	Hayes, Aneta
Titel	Tacit Rejection of Policy and Teacher Ambivalence: Insights into English Language Teaching in Bahrain through Actors' Perceptions
Quelle	In: TESOL Journal, 9 (2018) 1, S.114-137 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hayes, Aneta)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-7941
DOI	10.1002/tesj.310
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Language Planning; Second Language Instruction; Communicative Competence (Languages); Teacher Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Focus Groups; English Teachers; Educational Change; Resistance to Change; Indigenous Populations; International Programs; Bahrain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sprachwechsel; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; Lehrerverhalten; Qualitative Forschung; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungsreform; Sinti und Roma
Abstract	This article develops Phillips and Ochs's (2003) framework for policy borrowing, particularly their theorisations about indigenisation of international programmes. It uses the example of communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bahrain, exploring teacher perspectives regarding the effects of CLT on the preexisting arrangements in the national education system and the impact of contextual factors on the potential for CLT implementation. The author conducted qualitative focus groups with English language teachers in 10 schools. The analysis elucidates how teachers were tailoring their own ways through the new reforms to strike a satisfactory balance between the government's aims and the attitudes of the public. It answers the question, "What happens to English language teaching policy when it is transplanted to a different culture?" and concludes that it becomes actively rejected. The conclusion offers a conceptual development of Phillips and Ochs's framework, adding the option of "rejection" to the indigenisation stage. The article ends with some practical implications. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01