This article analyzes the "cuir" identity of an EFL student-teacher within the context of his pedagogical practicum. We adopt the term "cuir" as an analytical category to explore how notions of teacher identity and language pedagogy are mutually constructed. The paper challenges the traditional language pedagogy paradigm and…

This narrative study analyzes two mentors' experiences in their mentoring practices with language student-teachers in a private university in Bogotá (Colombia). Employing life-story interviews and drawing on ways of thinking and theorizing from praxis as a standpoint to enact decoloniality, we approach mentors' narratives from the notion of crack.…

This paper reports the findings of a narrative study on language student teachers' epistemological reconfigurations through lesson planning in a private university in Bogota, Colombia. The study aimed at exploring the possible forms of professional yet personal-local knowledge two language student teachers encounter and produce when they plan…