英文摘要 |
Teaching Chinese through YouTube videos, or the so-called Little Open Educational Resources (Weller 2010), is not like teaching in conventional classrooms. How did an experienced teacher meet the challenge in such a digital Chinese teaching context? This study adopted narrative inquiry methods to capture a teacher's three-year experience working side-by-side with Chinese teaching YouTubers. Drawing on Wenger (1998) and Kumaravadivelu (2003), the study deconstructed, interpreted, and reconstructed the narrative data in order to derive assertions as to how the teacher negotiated a satisfying identity and constructed personal theory from practice. Three assertions are proposed, including the complicated connection between two communities (Chinese teaching and YouTube), the core instructional practice, and ways to expand the teacher self in this context. Implications and suggestions for research and practice are discussed, including how Chinese teacher education could meet the challenge of alternative practice in digital contexts. |