‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China.
Journal Article
Stanley, P. (2008)
‘The foreign teacher is an idiot’: Symbolic interactionism, and assumptions about language and language teaching in China. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 4(1), 67-89. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v4i1.67
This paper examines Western teachers’ and Chinese students’ assumptions about second language acquisition and the nature of language itself. It explores the interaction of out...