The most popular star-tutor of English
Discursive Construction of Tutor Identities in Shadow Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2937820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Wai Ho Yung (0000-0001-5252-9422, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, corresponding author), Rui Yuan (0000-0002-6603-6423, Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-168 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2018.1488241 |
| OpenAlex | W2809107481 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 32 |
Private tutoring has become a widespread phenomenon worldwide, partly due to the global trend of marketisation and commodification of education. Informed by a discursive view of identity and through multimodal discourse analysis, this study aims to unveil part of the shadow education discourse by investigating the identities of 41 English language tutors portrayed in their biographies on the websites of six leading tutorial schools in Hong Kong. The findings suggest that the tutors project identities as (1) an authoritative exam expert, (2) a popular star, and (3) a well-qualified English language teacher. These multiple identities overlap and collectively create an ‘exam expert-star-teacher’ hybrid identity. The study sheds light on how implicit values and beliefs about shadow education are created and manifested in educational and social discourses, particularly when biography in tutorial advertisements is a prevailing commercial genre with promotional purposes
Aesthetics · Art · Commodification · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Pedagogy · Phenomenon · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · TUTOR · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Psychology
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Exploring the L2 selves of senior secondary students in English private tutoring in Hong Kong
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Marketization of Shadow Education in Switzerland
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching
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Understanding private supplementary tutoring
A narrative inquiry into a private tutor’s dynamic professional development in shadow education
The Scope and Dynamics of Shadow Education Among Selected High School Students in Izmir, Türkiye
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(Re)Constructing English as a Foreign Language ( EFL ) Tutor Identity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Theorizing agency from a complex dynamic systems theory perspective
Identity dynamics in text messaging
Bridging English language education gap in neoliberal times
Fee-charging private tutoring and educational inequality
Timescapes of shadow education
Blending Linguistic and Social Entrepreneurship on Online English Tutors’ Facebook Profiles
Being Students, Becoming Influencers
Iterative Self‐Branding
In search of a school façade
It’s a plus rather than a must’
A question of time and place
Supplementary education and the coronavirus pandemic
Investing in English private tutoring to move socially upward
Parental choice of private tuition
Competing for Views and Students
The most popular star-tutor of English
Teaching English in the shadow
Professional legitimacy in flux
The Language of Evaluation
Discourse and Identity
Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
Reading Images
Critical Discourse Analysis
Private tutoring and mass schooling in East Asia
Demand for private supplementary tutoring
Genre analysis
Analysing Discourse
Critical Discourse Analysis
English-medium instruction in Hong Kong
Branding and Discourse
The construction of a consumer population in advertising in 1920s China
Private tutoring lessons supply
Advantages and Disadvantages of Native‐ and Nonnative‐English‐speaking Teachers
Learning English in the Shadows
Shadow Education, American Style
Education in Popular Culture
The Handbook of Visual Analysis
Chapter 3
Identity and interaction
The most popular star-tutor of English
Discursive practices of private online tutoring websites in Russia
Visible pedagogic work
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |