E-grāmata: Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research

This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes, and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these include the effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity;the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers;challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities;the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers;teacher identity development of beginning teachers;the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers;the negotiation of professional identities by female academics. Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research would appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education, yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers-- Contributing to the scholarship on language teacher identity during the past decade, linguists take language and discourse as the essential media through which identity is constructed, maintained, and negotiated. They cover theoretical orientations; negotiations and reflexivity; power, spaces, and the negotiation of identities; tracing identity through narratives; and teacher identity and responding to changing times. Among the topics are a frames perspective on teacher identity in teaching English to speakers of other languages, identity negotiations in teaching English as a foreign language during a time of uncertainty and redundancy, tracing reflexivity through a narrative and identity lens, and language teacher identity and the certification of adult English as a second language teachers in Ontario. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes, and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these includethe effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity;the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers;challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities;the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers;teacher identity development of beginning teachers;the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers;the negotiation of professional identities by female academics.Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research will appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education, yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers.