'The most popular star-tutor of English': discursive construction of tutor identities in shadow education.

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 in...

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Publicado en:Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 153 - 169
Autores principales: Yung, Kevin Wai Ho, Yuan, Rui
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2020
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          Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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