Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research

by Gary Barkhuizen (Editor)

Overview

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 more generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317286080
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/10/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	286
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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: What’s 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 identity: Towards a social justice perspective

Manka M. Varghese

8. Recognizing the local in language teacher identity

Ahmar Mahboob

9. Narratives of identity: Reflections on English language teachers, teaching and educational opportunity

David Hayes

10. The tension between conflicting plots

Julia Menard-Warwick

11. Multilingual identity in teaching multilingual writing

Suresh Canagarajah

12. Language teacher identity in troubled times

Brenda Leibowitz

13. Learner investment and language teacher identity

Bonny Norton

14. Identity, innovation, and learning to teach a foreign/second language

Jason Martel

15. Boundary disputes in self

Sarah Mercer

16. Understanding language teachers’ sense making in action through the prism of future self guides

Magdalena Kubanyiova

17. Searching for identity in distance language teaching

Cynthia J. White

18. Second language teacher identity and study abroad

Jane Jackson

19. Becoming a researcher: A journey of inquiry

Yueting Xu

20. Identity and teacher research

Simon Borg

21. "This life-changing experience": Teachers be(com)ing action researchers

Anne Burns

22. Teacher identity in second language teacher education

Jack C. Richards

23. Identities as emotioning and believing

Ana Maria F. Barcelos

24. Grappling with language teacher identity

Paula Golombek

25. Situating affect, ethics, and policy in LTI research

Peter I. De Costa

26. Language teacher identity in teacher education

David Nunan

27. Language teacher identities and socialization

Patricia A. Duff

28. Acknowledging the generational and affective aspects of language teacher identity

Lesley Harbon

29. "Who I am is how I teach": Reflecting on language teacher professional role identity

Thomas S.C. Farrell

30. Questioning the identity turn in language teacher (educator) research

Xuesong Gao

31. "English is a way of travelling, Finnish the station from which you set out": Reflections on the identities of L2 teachers in the context of Finland

Paula Kalaja

32. Language teacher identity as critical social practice

Brian Morgan

33. Critical language teacher identity

Ryuko Kubota

34. Who we are: Teacher identity, race, empire, and nativeness

Suhanthie Motha

35. Reflecting on my flight path

Masaki Oda

36. Feminist language teacher identity research

Stephanie Vandrick

37. Identity dilemmas and research agendas

Cynthia D. Nelson

38. Second language writing teacher identity

Paul Kei Matsuda

39. Writing teacher identity: Current knowledge and future research

Yin Ling Cheung

40. Multiple selves, materials and teacher identity

Jill Hadfield

41. Language teaching identity: A fractal system

Vera Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva

42. The intimate alterity of identity

Matthew Clarke