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Publication Date: 2019
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Becoming Language Teachers: Exploring Student-Teachers' Identities Construction through Narratives
GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, n18 p6-27 Jan-Jun 2019
This paper reports on the findings of a qualitative narrative study. Its aim was to analyze what student-teachers' narratives unveiled about the construction of their identity as language learners, and the connections made with being future in-service teachers. This study, which was carried out with undergraduate students from a public university in Tunja, was the product of permanent interaction and dialogue with student-teachers in their initial teaching experiences. Narratives, in-depth interviews, and journals were used as data collection instruments. Data were analyzed using the grounded theory approach. The results suggest that student-teachers construct and re-construct their identities as language learners and future teachers across classroom interactions and their empowerment through teaching and reflection.
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reflection, Personal Narratives, Journal Writing, Undergraduate Students, State Universities, Teaching Experience, Teacher Education Programs, Classroom Communication, Self Concept, Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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