Beyond Identity Problem: Perspective of a Chinese Teacher of English

Abstract

With intensive globalization, Chinese teachers of English have more and more involved into cross-cultural communication. Throughout the communication, cultural conflicts have also arisen. Thus, Chinese English teachers have to face the conflicts in their teaching practice. For their specific and unique role, they are in the dilemma to either preserve his identity of Chinese culture or lose it to get a new identity of English culture. That is why the thesis has started to explore. The thesis digs out the reasons which have led to the conflicts of cultural identity---ideologies, the roots of the conflicts. As to the crisis of identity, the thesis offers the following solutions to Chinese English teachers. First, he should have a kind of consciousness or experience of Chinese culture and Western culture; second, he should get something critical in absorbing other cultures; third, he should remember that it is his goal to cultivate young generation with proper identity of moral attitudes, beliefs, personalities and values.