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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
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Nuranindia Endah Arum – AILA Review, 2024
Learning the host country's language(s) is a necessary step toward social and professional inclusion for migrants. However, it is often regarded as a challenging task that depends heavily on the sociocultural context in which migrants are situated. This study explores the Norwegian language learning strategies of highly educated Indonesians…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Migrants, Migrant Education
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
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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
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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
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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)
Palmer, Ryan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to understand how context may shape multiple goal negotiation. Prior research has focused on identifying variables that influence goal pursuit in general, but little attention has been given to how these principles operate in different circumstances. This study adopted the Dynamic Systems Model of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Christopher Gras – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The continued spread of Western ideology, English as a lingua franca, and the myth of the native speaker all play a role in the racialisation of language teaching (Phillipson, R. 1992. "Linguistic Imperialism." Oxford: Oxford University Press; Ramjattan, V. A. 2019. Raciolinguistics and the aesthetic labourer. "Journal of Industrial…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Race, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Astrid Mairitsch; Giulia Sulis; Sarah Mercer; Sun Shin; Salam Mairi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
While the emotion of pride has received increasing attention in general psychology, it has gone largely overlooked in the field of education generally, and language education specifically. This study explores the sources of pride reported by 140 English language teachers from various contexts across the globe. Data were generated through an online…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Selleck, Charlotte; Barakos, Elisabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This paper engages with the negotiation of insider and outsider researcher identities in the context of Welsh-English bilingualism in Wales. It aims to develop a reflexive approach to researching bilingualism, foregrounding the actions and experiences of doing bilingual research in a minority language context. Taking data from education and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Research, Welsh, English (Second Language)
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Torres-Rocha, Julio César – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
This study sought to examine how professional identities of English Language Teacher Educators (ELTEs) evolved considering current socio-political factors surrounding Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) in Colombia. This in-depth research examined how a group of 5 non-native ELTEs constructed and transformed their identity in an…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Özgehan Ustuk; Bedrettin Yazan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
In this study, we examine how teacher candidates navigate the tensions in their identity work as they complete the activities in the TESOL practicum course in Turkiye. Using the Bakhtinian approach to teacher identity, we conceptually maintain that identity work inevitably involves tensions that teachers encounter during their professional lives.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Akram Ramezanzadeh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
This study, conducted in Iran, examined English teachers' experience of authenticity, as the performative dimension of authentication, through a conceptual framework revolving around Durchsichtig (seeing through) and Handeln (action). Data were collected via big and small stories, and were hermeneutically analysed. Authenticity was seen through…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aisara Nauryzbayeva – English Teaching, 2024
This qualitative study explores how foreign non-native English speaking teachers (FNNESTs) perceive themselves as English educators and how they exert agency to be better perceived as professionals. Given the close relationship between teacher identity and its implications for educational outcomes, this study is based on Norton's (2008)…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Rui Yuan; Hong Zhang; Mo Li – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Despite a surge of research interest on languages other than English (LOTE) education over the past years, there is a lack of attention to LOTE teachers' professional practice and development in higher education. To address such a gap, this narrative inquiry examines how a Romanian language teacher navigates identity tensions and seeks his…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Self Concept, Language Teachers, Personal Narratives
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