The study found that Native English Speaking Teachers (NESTs) helped Taiwanese English teachers define their weaknesses, strengths, roles and values through relationality. NESTs brought competing discourses to the profession. In addition, team teaching has become a site of tension threatening Taiwanese English teachers in activating their professional agency
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Submitted to the School of Education of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2010
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
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