The teaching profession has been characterized as having high levels of stress and record
rates of burnout and attrition. Language teaching is no exception to this global trend. Indeed …

Responding to globalisation, a ubiquitous obsession with English has pervaded South
Korea and led to the employment of tens of thousands of expatriate English teachers …

Proposals for innovating language education at school are always affected by cultures of
teaching and teacher education. This article takes an inquisitive look at task‐based …

The consensus on professional teachers is known to be mostly determined by external
parties, especially the government. This prompts professionalism to be considered as an …

This paper examines the impact of internationalisation on the professional identities of
lecturers at three international universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Higher …

This study explores the use of textbooks by German English Language Teaching (ELT)
professionals and its interrelation with their Language Teacher Identities (LTI). Prior …

Illustrations in English textbooks are not merely decorations (Romney, 2012); they can
represent ideology and identity (Elmiana, 2019; Ihm, 1998). This paper explores the …

This study reports the examination of the professionalism of a local English teacher in
Sabah, Malaysia, through dialogic narrative inquiry. The purpose of this examination is to …

As an emotionally dynamic process, language learning is marked by fluctuations in students'
affective constructs (eg, enjoyment, playfulness, boredom). Thus, clues supporting an …

The professional identity of Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers (NNEST) has been an
issue of frequent debate and research in the world of TESOL. This study aims to gain insight …