"Don't wake me, my desk is far too comfortable": an autoethnography of a novice ESL teacher's first year of teaching in Japan

"This thesis explores and analyzes a first year ESL teacher's experience teaching at an all-girl's private school in Nishinomiya, Japan. Chapter 3 is divided into 15 sections that tell the teacher's story of living and teaching in Japan. This chapter includes description, dialogue, concurrent diary excerpts, photos, and theory. Chapter 4 analyzes these experiences and discusses the lessons the author learned while reflecting on her teaching in Japan. The main lesson learned was the importance of practicing cultural relativity--that is, opening one's mind and realizing that there is more than one way to live, teach, and see the world. Chapter 5 compiles all the theory the author studied while attending graduate school, concluding with what she will bring from both her experiences in Japan and in graduate school into her current ESL classrooms"--Leaf iv.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA) in English: Teaching English as a Second Language

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Holland, Delaney

• Autobiographical essays
• Holland
• Delaney
• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• Diaries--Authorship
• Ethnology--Biographical methods
• English language--Study and teaching--Japanese speakers
• English language--Study and teaching--Japan
• Second language acquisition
• Teachers--Japan--Biography
• Teachers--Washington (State)--Biography
• Education--Japan
• Autobiography
• Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
• English Language and Literature

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Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/292

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.ewu.edu:theses-1291