Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research [Paperback]

Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Researchis 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 more generally.

 

1. Language teacher identity research: An introduction

Gary Barkhuizen

2. Tangled up with everything else: Toward new conceptions of language, teachers and identities

Kelleen Toohey

3. Teacher autonomy and teacher agency

Phil Benson

4. Becoming a language teaching professional: Whats identity got to do with it?

Richard Donato

5. Journey to the centre of language teacher identity

David Block

6. Towards sociolinguistically-informed language teacher identities

Christina Higgins

7. Language teacher educator identity and language teacher ilÓK