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Sherman, Brandon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Each year, multitudes respond to the demand for native English speakers to teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Asian countries, particularly China, Japan, and South Korea. These EFL transnationals are often young, new to living abroad, and inexperienced as educators. When they arrive, they often find a community, and an identity waiting…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Indigenous Populations
Molly Heeren – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This autoethnographic study uses personal memoirs to explore the author's allyship and advocacy efforts throughout the past 24 years in the language teaching profession. Through the process of self-reflexivity and introspection, "turning points" are investigated to understand more about what influences the actions and behaviors of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Adult Education, Second Language Instruction
Chulwon Jung; Hohsung Choe – English Teaching, 2024
This paper explores the professional identities of four Filipino English teachers (FETs) who instruct international students at a language academy in Bonifacio Global City (BGC), a special district for the Philippines' globalization. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, data was gathered through individual interviews, and subsequently analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Asians, English (Second Language)
Edgar Aguirre-Garzón; Diego Ubaque-Casallas – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This article analyzes the "cuir" identity of an EFL student-teacher within the context of his pedagogical practicum. We adopt the term "cuir" as an analytical category to explore how notions of teacher identity and language pedagogy are mutually constructed. The paper challenges the traditional language pedagogy paradigm and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Syed Abdul Manan; Anas Hajar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Most recent research on language learning and identity emphasizes on investing learners' capital as affordance to affirm their identities (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton, 2013). Learners' capital refers to prior knowledge, home literacies/native languages. Drawing on data from English language academies from Pakistan, this study finds a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xu, Wen; Stahl, Garth; Cheng, Hao – Language and Education, 2023
The proportion of international students in Chinese higher education is increasing, however, there remains little research that explores their motivations and how their learning of Chinese influences their identities and imagined futures. In this paper, we address the need for research on South-South migration--specifically Sino-African…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Sumithran, Suma; Chowdhury, Raqib; Barnes, Melissa – Qualitative Research Journal, 2023
Purpose: Adult student identities within EAL (English as an Additional Language) classrooms have often been positioned as static, homogenised and exoticised within scholarly literature. Within such positioning, teachers have embraced pedagogical practices which classify students by country of origin and represent student identities within binaries…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jenny Bergström – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
This article explores students' perspectives on English language learning in relation to the Language Introduction Programme in Sweden, which is an individual transitional programme for newly arrived immigrants and seeks to quickly transition adolescents into further education or the job market. High proficiency in English is vital in Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
Xiaomei Sun; Farah Akbar – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This narrative inquiry investigates an English as a Foreign Language teacher's storied experience of 30-year extensive reading (ER) implementation, with the aim of exploring the formation of language teacher identity (LTI) of this individual teacher. Two narrative interviews were conducted, respectively focusing on the holistic story and detailed…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sibel Sögüt – TESL-EJ, 2024
Informed by Huber's (2021) framework of critical ethnography from a social justice perspective, this study aimed to (a) figure out how language teachers struggle for equity embedded within their socio-cultural contexts of schooling; (b) examine the micro, meso, and macro-factors affecting their identities with the impact of dominating ideologies;…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Justice, Decision Making, Professional Identity
A Narrative Literature Review of the Identity Negotiation of Bilingual Students Who Are Labelled ESL
Khan, Shana Sanam – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2020
English as a second language or ESL instruction is said to be for students who have moved to the United States (or Canada) from another country and temporarily need assistance in learning the English language. However, statistically, a vast majority of ESL students in the United States were born in the US and are US citizens. When students are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Socialization
Khalid Said – Cogent Education, 2023
This study stands at the crossroads of folklorization, ethnicity, and curriculum. It seeks to criticize how the institutionalized production of knowledge about Amazigh folklore in Morocco has contributed to the creation and maintenance of a closed system of linguistic options for representing Amazigh ethnic groups through "folklorizing"…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jiaye Wu; Nicola McLelland; Sarah Dauncey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulgation of a majority language to ethnic minority learners of that majority language. This paper…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mandarin Chinese, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes
Daphnee Hui Lin Lee – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2024
This paper studies the identity dilemmas of a teacher negotiating the tensions underpinning the transformations in the language profile of a Hong Kong primary school. Using a rigorous triangulation of written journals and in-depth interviews, the study reconstructs a case narrative personified as "Lily", an English language teacher at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Joseph Ernest Mambu – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
English language teacher education is not only about making students who learn to teach English focus on language teaching, learning, and use but also about how teacher educators can delve into the life purposes of themselves, their students, and their students' learners. The role of a language teacher educator is hence pivotal in orchestrating…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sustainable Development