‘Finally, it's all in vain’: A Chinese as an additional language teacher's agency in navigating the teaching-research nexus in a neoliberal Chinese university

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI:10.1016/j.system.2024.103420

Yang (Frank) Gong , Luyao (Elva) Zhang , Wendong (Marco) Li

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Abstract

The neoliberal emphasis on performance metrics, such as research outputs and citations, has weakened the symbiotic relationship between teaching and research in language education. However, language teachers' experiences of navigating the challenge that neoliberalism creates for the teaching-research nexus have been largely absent, with the existing literature predominantly focusing on documenting the impact of neoliberalism on research and teaching. This narrative case study aims to address this gap by tracing a Chinese as an additional language (CAL) teacher's agency in navigating the teaching-research nexus in a neoliberal Chinese university. Based on data from three rounds of interviews, informal conversations, notes, and policy documents, this study identified a noticeable shift in the participant's narrated experiences, progressing from active engagement with research to enhance teaching practices, to pragmatic engagement in research for scholarly publication, and eventually to disenchanted retreat from the academic battlefield. This trajectory highlights the escalating challenges faced by the participant in navigating the teaching-research nexus. Practical implications are discussed to strengthen the link between teaching and research in language education in the neoliberal context.

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最后，一切都是徒劳"：一名汉语教师在中国大学新自由主义教学与研究关系中的能动作用

新自由主义强调研究成果和引用率等绩效指标，削弱了语言教育中教学与研究之间的共生关系。然而，语言教师在应对新自由主义给教学与研究之间带来的挑战方面的经验却基本缺失，现有文献主要侧重于记录新自由主义对研究和教学的影响。本叙事性案例研究旨在通过追溯一位汉语作为辅助语言（CAL）教师在一所新自由主义中国大学中驾驭教学与科研关系的过程，来弥补这一空白。根据三轮访谈、非正式谈话、笔记和政策文件中的数据，本研究发现了参与者叙述的经历中的一个明显转变，即从积极参与研究以提高教学实践，到务实地参与研究以发表学术论文，最终到从学术战场上无动于衷地撤退。这一轨迹凸显了参与者在处理教学与研究关系时所面临的不断升级的挑战。我们讨论了在新自由主义背景下加强语言教育教学与研究之间联系的实际意义。

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ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.