Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research

<p>This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds themes and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these include</p><ul> <li>the effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity</li> <li>the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers</li> <li>challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities</li> <li>the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers</li> <li>teacher identity development of beginning teachers</li> <li>the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers</li> <li>the negotiation of professional identities by female academics</li> </ul><p><i>Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research</i> will appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers.</p>