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Ryosuke Aoyama – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
This paper examines English teacher identity of Japanese "non-native" English-speaking teachers through a multi-layered analysis of discourses and identity. Informed by poststructuralist views of identity, it explores dominant discourses surrounding "non-native" English-speaking teachers by analyzing their portrayal in national…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Aguilar, Jenny Mendieta; Rütti-Joy, Olivia – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
As Pennington and Richards (2016) observe, a teacher's sense of what it means to be a teacher is created interactively with the knowledge base and identity of the larger field. Technological developments and unprecedented societal change have recently, however, rendered the?teaching profession more complex and diverse. This is particularly evident…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez; Flor Ángela Hurtado Torres; Daniel Elias Pérez Diaz – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2023
This collaborative autoethnographic research explores the identity shaping construction trajectory of a group of three English teacher researchers as well as the repercussions that these processes had on the enactment of a critical decolonial perception toward the ELT field. Using a qualitative approach, the English teachers engaged in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Teacher Researchers
Gao, Yang – SAGE Open, 2021
Using critical ethnographic narrative as a tool and language socialization as the theoretical stance, the article analyzes excerpts of a language teacher's life experience and presents findings to join the existing literature. The article indicates that: (1) transnational teacher identities develop in a multiple-identity system including…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yazan, Bedrettin – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Recent research has studied teacher emotions vis-à-vis teachers' learning, practice, and identity development and called for teacher-learning practices to include an intentional focus on emotions. Responding to this call, I designed a teacher-learning activity called 'critical autoethnographic narrative' (CAN). I coached teacher candidates (TCs)…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Learning Processes
Karimpour, Sedigheh; Moradi, Farhang; Nazari, Mostafa – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: The growing body of knowledge on language teacher agency highlights the positive contributions of agency for teacher identity construction. However, teachers may face challenges in effectively exercising agency, and their agentive actions may be impeded by multiple contextual factors. The present study adopts a narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, Professional Identity
Bursali, Nihan; Misir, Hülya – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The aim of the study is to show emerging identity performances of Turkish Fulbright foreign teaching language assistants (FLTAs) in social and academic contexts during their sojourn experiences in the US. The grant program brings institutional roles of being a teacher and a learner and social duties of culture transmission in the host country. The…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Interaction, Cultural Context
Yang, Nuoyi; Tochon, Francois Victor – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
This study investigates the language teacher identity of one teacher of Chinese in a community-based language school in the U.S. Inspired by Tochon's authentic learning model (2000) and Bourdieu's theory of habitus (1972/1977), this study developed a conceptual framework which views language teacher identity as a learning-practice relational…
Descriptors: Chinese, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Camargo-Ruiz, Karen Tatiana; Aponte-Moniquira, Daniel – HOW, 2023
Gender studies have become relevant for English language teaching and initial teacher education. This study uses a narrative inquiry approach to inspect two language teachers' life stories in an initial teacher education program. We document how their femininities and identities are embodied through their language pedagogy since it is a praxis…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Xiaoxuan Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Considering the broad context that there is a growing number of international students seeking English teacher education in the Western TEOSL programs and the majority of them will eventually go back to their own countries to teach, these international TESOL trainees face the challenge of integrating two different language education systems.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Hammine, Madoka; Keskitalo, Pigga; Katjaana Sarivaara, Erika – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
Conducted in northern Finland, this study examines Sámi language teachers' professional identities through their narratives of language acquisition. We focus on how teachers' professional identities are shaped by their language acquisition process. The results are based on the narratives of nine North, Inari and Skolt Sámi language teachers. Two…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Qin, Kongji – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2019
This classroom discourse study examines how curriculum becomes a resource for identity performance in one ESL classroom. Conceptualizing identity as performance, I adopt a small stories approach to analyze how one routinized vocabulary instructional activity was appropriated by classroom participants to perform identities and construct the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Classroom Communication, Immigrants, English (Second Language)
Yuzlu, Muhammet Yasar – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: This study presents the emergence of my dynamic bilingualism-induced critical bilingual identity by drawing upon Garcia and Wei's translanguaging perspectives. Design/Methodology/Approach: I adopted an autoethnographic approach focusing on teacher development through research and practice, supported by research on fostering dynamic…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers
Eslamdoost, Samaneh; King, Kendall A.; Tajeddin, Zia – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This paper examines how English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers in Iran manage the identity conflicts that arise within their language teaching contexts. The position of English in Iran is manifestly, ideologically, and politically shaped, yet little is known about the process of EFL teacher identity construction and management in this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Mansouri, Behzad – TESL-EJ, 2021
Conceptualizing language teacher identity as a reciprocal, contextual and discursive process developed by teachers' positionality in multiple social, cultural, linguistic, professional and educational discourses, this study explored identity positionings reflected in the lived experiences of two female Iranian English language teachers who learned…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Females, Second Language Instruction