Language Teaching Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 16, 2024
This multiple-case study examines the dynamics of identity among Chinese university teachers English as a foreign language (EFL) in response to challenges that arise from individual teaching contexts. Grounded Dialogical Self Theory (DST), investigates how these navigate conflicting pedagogies, exercise agency, and negotiate their professional identities. Through in-depth interviews classroom observations, findings demonstrate ways which participating drew on diverse position repertoires manage complexities roles. The identified several key positioning strategies, including adoption meta-positions, creation third positions, utilization promoter formation coalitions management cacophonous positioning. contribute growing body research teacher identity, highlighting dynamic complexity construction. offers implications for development programs, advocating opportunities foster critical reflection teachers’ multiple I-positions.
Язык: Английский