Patrick Kiernan

Narrative Identity in English Language Teaching

Exploring Teacher Interviews in Japanese and English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addressing both language teachers and identity researchers, this book underlines the importance of identity in ELT through an analysis of teacher stories told in interviews with the author. It illustrates a new multi-dimensional approach to exploring narrative identity in qualitative interviews through a linguistic analysis of anecdotes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780230233270
• ISBN-10: 0230233279
• Artikelnr.: 28953396

Autorenporträt

PATRICK KIERNAN is Lecturer in English at Meiji University, Tokyo. His is an applied linguist whose research interests include narrative, identity, comparative discourse analysis and English language teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables List of Extracts Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Narrative and Conversation Teaching Identity Matters The Narrative Research Interview Spatio-temporal Focus and the Construction of Identity Evaluation and Identity Professional Identity in ELT Conclusion References Index