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Tavares, Vander – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Research on language teacher identity has grown exponentially over the last two decades. By researching language teacher identity, we develop a better understanding of how sociological issues generally impact teachers' lives. For non-native language teachers, in particular, challenges tend to originate from language ideologies around…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sang, Yuan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
After 20 years of study since researchers of second language teacher education have increasingly emphasized the importance of investigating L2 teachers' mental lives, the research of language teacher identity has been flowering and providing intriguing insights to deepen the field's understanding of how L2 teachers develop and learn to become…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Professional Identity, Sociocultural Patterns
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Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto; Jairo Enrique Castañeda-Trujillo – TESOL Journal, 2024
In the 1990s, Colombia embraced neoliberalism, and as a result, all public and private institutions and organizations have adhered to its principles. Following this ideology, the national government implemented an educational quality policy intending to standardize processes and measure outcomes to position the country favorably in the global…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
Dr Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah's article, "The New Territory of Educational Research in TESOL/TEFL: What Novice Researchers Should Know", provides a comprehensive guide for novice researchers in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It emphasises the importance of research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Peña-Pincheira, Romina S.; De Costa, Peter I. – TESOL Journal, 2021
Recent global social unrest that stems from historical racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality and inequity has elevated the need for language educators to challenge traditional understandings of and practices in the language classroom. Such a development warrants an examination of language teacher agency in contemporary society. To this end…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Leal, Priscila – TESL-EJ, 2023
This article presents a theoretically grounded methodological approach to investigate the interplay between language teacher cognition and critical language teacher identity development. To answer the question as to what social, cultural, historical, and political aspects lead teachers to position themselves as language teachers for social…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Schemata (Cognition), Correlation
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Kemaloglu-Er, Elif; Lowe, Robert J. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
As English has developed into a global language, comprehensive suggestions have been made for the integration of World Englishes (WE) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) into language education. However, such suggestions have often encountered considerable resistance, in part due to the complexities in the formation of language teacher identity.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Florina Matu – NECTFL Review, 2025
This article articulates how the instructor of a French for the Professions course at the U.S. Air Force Academy designed her course by using students' inputs, in particular in the area of assessment. It highlights students' perspectives and contributions, as well as the instructor's deliberate actions to incorporate their voices as expressed in…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Languages for Special Purposes
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Neupane, Bharat Prasad; Bhatt, Surendra Prasad – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2023
Given the widespread concentration on beliefs, values, emotions, critical incidents, and practices in exploring teachers' professional identities, this study presents the trajectories of identity construction of three English language teachers from Nepal, analyzing their storied lives from schoolteachers to university professors. For this purpose,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Yazan, Bedrettin; Lindahl, Kristen – TESL-EJ, 2023
In this paper, as two TESOL practitioners, our purpose is to capture our reflections on how conceptual approaches to teacher learning have evolved over the years to highlight the interplay between teacher cognition and teacher identity. We also seek to decrease the distance between ourselves and our academic writing, essentially emerging from…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
English language teaching (ELT) professionals are integral to internationalization and globalization processes universities around the world are pursuing. In doing so, ELT professionals have become complicit with issues that relate to colonialism and imperialism. These issues continue to have a detrimental effect on our societies, keeping the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Scott, Timothy – English Language Teaching, 2021
Higher educational institutions (HEIs) have experienced a dramatic reconceptualization as academia strives to align its organizational design and civic mission with the societal notion that education is obliged to prioritize quantifiable results. The traditionalistic ethos that knowledge is acquired through reason and the pursuit of critical…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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AlHarbi, Mohammed S.; Ahmad, Hussain – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Research has shown that a strong teacher professional identity is an integral part of teaching as well as learning processes. Unlike the traditional view of who teachers are, nowadays conceptualization considers teachers not only as reservoirs of knowledge but individuals that inspire other individuals in unique ways. Teacher professional identity…
Descriptors: Self Control, Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hernández Varona, Wilson – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
It is essential to revise how political discourses and the administering of politics, not precisely within the school context but outside as well, interplay with the constitution of teacher subjectivities particularly in countries where education is highly influenced by sociopolitical factors without conscious acknowledgment from teachers.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Public Education, Social Attitudes
Mora, Raúl Alberto – Online Submission, 2018
The notion that teachers should incorporate research into their own craft has gained traction over the past decade, becoming an increasing imperative. In the case of Colombia, for example, preservice education programs have incorporated research methods classes to their curricula along with the writing of a research paper for their senior thesis…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Researchers, Reflective Teaching, Faculty Development
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