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Rui Yuan; Kailun Wang – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language teacher identity (LTI) research has experienced exponential growth over the past decades, shedding light on language teachers' multiple identities as well as their construction processes in various educational contexts. However, despite the fruitful findings, the dominance of researchers' perspectives and the contextual constraints faced…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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
Yuanyuan Liu; Xiaoli Li – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This study explores the professional identity construction of two transnational Chinese language teachers against a backdrop where multilingual and dynamic turns in language teaching and learning are taking place globally. Combining the complex dynamic system theory perspective with the multifaceted nature of language learning and teaching…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Foreign Workers, Language Teachers, Chinese
Mimi Masson; Samantha Van Geel – TESL Canada Journal, 2024
In Canada, many English as a second language (ESL) teachers work with linguistically, culturally, and racially diverse student populations. Increased ethnic and racial diversity and shifts in the linguistic landscape in the classroom indicate a great need for pedagogical frameworks that account for learners' linguistic and cultural diversity. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Özgehan Ustuk – TESOL Journal, 2025
Language teacher educators all around the world work in multiple countries and institutions throughout their careers across institutional, national, and academic cultures. As higher education becomes more transnational in some regions (including Hong Kong), it has also become more common for language teacher educators to construct transnational…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnography
Yazan, Bedrettin; Pentón Herrera, Luis Javier; Rashed, Doaa – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
In this paper, we, as three transnational TESOL practitioners (TTP), engage in a collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to examine our professional identity tensions. Theoretically, we follow the premise that the tensions we experience in our professional life can be productive experiences for identity-oriented reflection and, as we work toward…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cameron W. Smith – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This article draws upon a 10-month study of core French as a second language (FSL) teachers to explore the professional identities that are produced in their work. Adopting rhizoanalysis and the Deleuzian concept of becoming, this article positions the ways in which these teachers both affect and are affected by the multiple material and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Hanife Tasdemir; Gölge Seferoglu – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this study was to explore how English language teachers construct and enact their teacher identities. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with four in-service English language teachers at Turkish public schools. The findings revealed certain identity stabilizers: the fascination with subject and the job, caring for…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Anne Feryok, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This is the first edited volume to bring together research on the interaction between language teacher identity and wellbeing. It addresses the need for further research on the experience of language teachers and the vulnerability and resilience they demonstrate in the face of threats to their wellbeing. Naming, describing and analyzing issues…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Well Being
Xinyue Lu; Yuseva Ariyani Iswandari; Zhenjie Weng; Francis John Troyan – TESOL Journal, 2025
Given the need to explore the nature of language teacher educator (LTE) identities, this duoethnography centers the identity journeys of three language teacher educators--Lu, Yuseva, and Zhenjie--as they evolved together and in dialogue with their advisor, Francis. To this end, they began with the central identity task, the Language Use…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Karen Densky – BC TEAL Journal, 2025
Becoming a teacher involves more than the acquisition of a new set of skills and knowledge. It involves a change in one's identity, and this change is often precipitated by tensions experienced during a teaching practicum (Mezirow, 2000). This multiple case study explores the points of tension experienced by 18 student teachers during practicum in…
Descriptors: Practicums, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Brandon J. Sherman; Annela Teemant – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language teacher learning and professional identity can be understood as intertwined. Radical changes in practice entail changes in how teachers understand themselves. Thus, narratives of identity should be considered a significant concern of professional learning. Employing a narrative conception of identity, we argue that narrative identity work…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Language Teachers, Professional Identity, English (Second Language)
Kaihao Yuan; Shuwen Liu – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The outbreak of COVID-19 witnesses a sudden surge of fully online classes globally. Scholarly attention has promptly shifted to explore the personal experiences and perceived challenges of students and teachers. For English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instructors around the world, many are required to teach online for the first time, yet studies…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Yue Zhang – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
Foreign or second-language (L2) pre-service teachers (PSTs) are simultaneously learners and teachers of the target language, adding to the complexity of teacher education. How these two identities are intertwined with their pedagogical beliefs and dominant ideologies has not been fully investigated, especially with PSTs in longitudinal studies. To…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Juyoung Song; Hassan Nejadghanbar – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigates the impact of social media discourses, espoused by neoliberal and consumerist ideologies, on a language teacher educator's (LTE) identity negotiation. Through a collaborative case study, it examines Hassan's (the second author) experiences with social media in the Iranian English language teaching (ELT) context over three…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Discourse Analysis, Social Media, Language Teachers