Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and…mehr
Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and research work. Authors weave discussions of LTI into their own research biographies, employing a personal reflective style. This book also looks to future directions in LTI research, with suggestions for research topics and methodological approaches. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in language teacher identity as well as language teaching and research moregenerally.
Gary Barkhuizen is Professor in the School of Cultures, Languages, and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of teacher education, narrative research, and teacher and learner identity. He is former co-editor of the Language Teaching Research journal.
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Language teacher identity research: An introduction
Gary Barkhuizen
Tangled up with everything else: Toward new conceptions of language, teachers and identities
Kelleen Toohey
Teacher autonomy and teacher agency
Phil Benson
Becoming a language teaching professional: What's identity got to do with it?
Richard Donato
Journey to the centre of language teacher identity
David Block
Towards sociolinguistically-informed language teacher identities
Christina Higgins
Language teacher educator identity and language teacher identity: Towards a social justice perspective
Manka M. Varghese
Recognizing the local in language teacher identity
Ahmar Mahboob
Narratives of identity: Reflections on English language teachers, teaching and educational opportunity
David Hayes
The tension between conflicting plots
Julia Menard-Warwick
Multilingual identity in teaching multilingual writing
Suresh Canagarajah
Language teacher identity in troubled times
Brenda Leibowitz
Learner investment and language teacher identity
Bonny Norton
Identity, innovation, and learning to teach a foreign/second language
Jason Martel
Boundary disputes in self
Sarah Mercer
Understanding language teachers' sense making in action through the prism of future self guides
Magdalena Kubanyiova
Searching for identity in distance language teaching
