Russian language teachers’ professional agency against the backdrop of the New National Teaching Quality Standards in China: an ecological perspective

IF 1.7 1区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Current Issues in Language Planning Pub Date : 2021-10-15 DOI:10.1080/14664208.2021.1988420

Y. Tao

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ABSTRACT With the ‘New National Teaching Quality Standards’ and its supplement – the ‘Guide for the Russian Majors Education’ as language education policies, this paper argues that these policies have constructed an ecological environment for Russian language teachers’ (RLTs) agency in China. The interpretive policy analysis, interviews and classroom observations of four RLTs help explore which environmental factors (the macro-system, exo-system, meso system and micro-system) impact their agency from an ecological perspective, and which factors are ignored by RLTs. The findings are: (1) (the ideology embodied in) these policies is (are) mandatory in terms of the vocabulary and text, and they set a macro (exo-) framework for and influence RLTs’ agency; (2) The meso system (universities) has the greatest impact on RLTs’ agency, which may access or deny the possibilities the macro-language policy may offer; (3) RLTs’ dispositions and the Russian language department constitute a potential micro-system, and the role of this sub-system in RLTs’ agency cannot be ignored. This study is of methodological, theoretical, and practical significance for research on the impact of language policy and planning (LPP) on the developmental environment for teachers of less-commonly-taught language in terms of LPP for the diversity of foreign language education.

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新《国家教学质量标准》背景下的俄语教师专业代理：生态视角

摘要本文以《新国家教学质量标准》及其补充《俄语专业教育指南》为语言教育政策，认为这些政策为我国俄语教师机构构建了一个生态环境。四个RLT的解释性政策分析、访谈和课堂观察有助于从生态角度探讨哪些环境因素（宏观系统、外部系统、中观系统和微观系统）影响其代理，哪些因素被RLT忽视。研究结果表明：（1）这些政策（所体现的意识形态）在词汇和文本上是强制性的，它们为RLT的代理设置了宏观（外部）框架并对其产生了影响；（2）中介系统（大学）对RLT的代理影响最大，这可能会访问或否认宏观语言政策可能提供的可能性；（3） RLT的部署和俄语系构成了一个潜在的微观系统，该子系统在RLT代理中的作用不容忽视。本研究对于研究语言政策和规划（LPP）对不太常用语言教师的发展环境的影响具有方法论、理论和实践意义。

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期刊介绍： The journal Current Issues in Language Planning provides major summative and thematic review studies spanning and focusing the disparate language policy and language planning literature related to: 1) polities and language planning and 2) issues in language planning. The journal publishes four issues per year, two on each subject area. The polity issues describe language policy and planning in various countries/regions/areas around the world, while the issues numbers are thematically based. The Current Issues in Language Planning does not normally accept individual studies falling outside this polity and thematic approach. Polity studies and thematic issues" papers in this journal may be self-nominated or invited contributions from acknowledged experts in the field.