This chapter focuses on the link between positioning theory and applied linguistics research.
The chapter explains how various social and poststructural concepts in applied linguistics …

Abstract Language teaching is by nature a complex and social practice with numerous
personal and contextual aspects. It hinges upon how teachers perceive themselves, the way …

Developed as a theoretical framework, Positioning Theory (eg, Davies & Harré, 1990, 1999)
focuses on how individuals are positioned in interactions and narratives as micro-level …

This article examines how graduate employability is viewed by employers in six
economically disadvantaged mountainous provinces in Vietnam. The study reported in this …

Background: Engineering is often portrayed as a purely rational discipline, where emotions
are considered irrelevant to problem solving. Also, in-depth research on emotions in …

This article focuses on a case study of English language teachers, who are asked to teach
intercultural communication to mixed classes of local and international students in Chinese …

This article examines the mediating role of agency in second language teacher identity,
specifically vis-à-vis the impact of native-speaker ideologies on teachers' professional sense …

This article explores the construction of teachers' professional identity through analysis of
subjective learning experiences. In order to report on the progress of our work, we present a …

This paper looks at secondary teachers' discourse about Madrid's Bilingual Programme
(Spain). Madrid's Bilingual Programme is a large education plan whereby some content …

This study explores how ICT policies assign positions and digital teacher identities to
educators in under-resourced contexts. It examines implications of such positioning on the …