This study aims to map the literature on shadow education using metadata extracted from
488 publications indexed in the Web of Science database. It is termed as shadow education …

Across the African continent, households are devoting increasing expenditures to private
supplementary tutoring. Such tutoring is widely called shadow education, because it mimics …

En la literatura académica, las clases particulares complementarias constituyen lo que se
ha venido a llamar educación en la sombra, puesto que la mayoría de sus contenidos imitan …

This study explores the complexities of teacher identity formation for two Chinese teachers of
English in China, who represent two growing groups of English teachers: Alice, who worked …

Private tutoring is one of the unintended outcomes of high-stakes testing and has become a
widespread global phenomenon. It is called shadow education because it mimics the …

Based on Dörnyei's L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS), this study explored senior
secondary students' multiple L2 selves when they enrolled in English private tutoring (EPT) …

This study compares the teaching effectiveness of cram school tutors and schoolteachers of
English based on the perceptions of senior secondary students in Hong Kong. It adopts a …

The shift from meritocracy to parentocracy in contemporary societies has resulted in a
situation where children's educational success increasingly depends on parents' wealth and …

The paper investigates YouTube teachers' identity construction within dominant language
ideologies. Drawing on the constructs of language teacher professional identity, social …

Access to private tutoring, or shadow education, significantly contributes to the increasing
disparities in the attainment of language learners from different family backgrounds …