A Study of Chinese University English Teachers' Subjectivity in a Neoliberal EAP Policy Implementation: From a Foucauldian Perspective.

Human capital has had a considerable influence on the education policies in China. In this paper, a new policy of the Shanghai Education Bureau is described in which universities were strongly rec-ommended to replace their English in general education programs with an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) one, in order to produce talent for regional and national development. Using a Fou-cauldian perspective to explore the extent the teachers were subjectified by the Shanghai EAP Poli-cy. The teachers had demonstrated their subjectivity, particularly via critiquing, questioning the dis-course and mediating their EAP teaching. Teachers' praxis becomes useful in helping them to de-velop independent professionalism to sustain their subjectivity in a neoliberal discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]