This is a longitudinal study of foreign language teacher professional identity development.
We traced a single teacher's sociohistorical identity development at three temporally …

The present study aimed to explore the professional identity development of English
teachers through the lens of the Possible Selves Theory, focusing on the experiences of …

This article explores the influence of personal and professional experiences on the
development of teacher identity. The holistic perspective in this article refers to the language …

The overall objective of this study was to investigate the constraints that have occurred
regarding the first-year English language teachers' professional identity construction at five …

In the last decade, a growing body of research has delved into the complex process of
teacher identity development (Alsup, 2006; Beauchamp & Thomas, 2009; Brown & …

In this chapter I will introduce five foreign teachers' career paths during the nine or ten first
years after their graduation. These five are among the 11 teachers whose relationship with …

Against this backdrop, I found myself refl ecting carefully on the issue of teacher identity in
my own research. Despite the fact that I do not situate myself centrally in the identity …

While identity has been a topic of interest within the field of general teacher education for
quite some time, second language acquisition research-the knowledge base upon which …

Identity is of increasing interest in teacher education. Crucial for resilience, the development
of a coherent professional identity has been characterized as emerging from tensions …

This study explored the co-constitutive influence of past experiences, present engagement
in practice, and future self-images on the identity reconstruction of three novice language …