Publications

Publication details [#43215]

Johnston, Bill, Manka Varghese, Brian D. Morgan and Kimberly A. Johnson. 2005. Theorizing Language Teacher Identity: Three Perspectives and Beyond. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 4 (1) : 21–44.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language teaching | teacher

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper examines means of theorizing language teacher identity by analyzing three data-based language teacher identity studies and the three different theoretical perspectives they employ: Tajfel's (1978) social identity theory, Lave and Wenger's (1991) theory of situated learning, and Simon's (1995) concept of the image-text.