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INTRODUCTION
AsEnglishhasbecomeagloballanguageandtherearemultiplereasons
whyitshouldbelearnt,thereexistpressingneedstoeducatecompetent
Englishlanguageteachers.This,however,ishardtoaccomplishunlesswe
arefamiliarwithdifferentaspectsofthisprofession.Sincerecentstudies
(e.g.Friesen&Besley,2013;Meijeretal.,2011)haveindicatedthatlearning
tobeateacherisasimportantaslearninghowtoteach,anessentialpartof
learningtobecomeateacherislearningabouthisorheridentity.Although
originallyinvestigatedinphilosophyandsocialstudies,theconceptofiden-
tityhasemergedasaseparateresearchcategory,inspiringdiscussionsonse-
condlanguagelearneridentity(e.g.Bensonetal.,2013;Block,2007;Hemmi,
2014;Kidd,2016;Miller,2014;Miyahara,2015;Simon-Maeda,2011;Taylor,
2013;Zhao,2015)and,representinganemergingfield,studiesonlanguage
teacheridentity(e.g.Barkhuizen,2016;Ciepiela,2013;Cheungetal.,2015;
Deters,2011;Menard-Warwick,2014;Miller,2009;Nagatomo,2012,2016;
PhanLeHa,2008;Ruohotie-Lyhty,2016).
Traditionalperspectivesoninvestigatingthelanguageteacherwerecon-
finedtocharacteristicsofHagoodteacher”(e.g.Komorowska,1984,1999;
Sanderson,1982),therolestheyplay(e.g.Werbińska,2004;Wright,1988;
Zawadzka,2004;)orachievementofdesirablecompetences,usuallyinterms
ofmethods,skillsandbehaviours(e.g.Bress,2000;Harmer,1998;Scrivener,
1994).Yet,educationforteachers’fixedpracticesandattitudesisonlypossi-
bleinidenticalsocialsystemsandsimplisticeducationalcontexts.Life
showsthattheteacher,justlikeanyotherindividual,isrecognizedasHacer-
tainkindofperson”inagivencontextwhoHcanchangefrommomentto
momentintheinteraction,fromcontexttocontext,canbeambiguous
orunstable”(Gee,2001,p.99).Besides,ithastobeacknowledgedthat,as
Wenger(1998,p.263)writes,HEducationisnotmerelyformativeitistrans-
formativeissuesofeducationshouldbeaddressedfirstandforemostin
termsofidentitiesandmodesofbelongingandonlysecondarilyinterms
ofskillsandinformation”.Thisimpliesthatlearningtoteachisaprocessof
Hbecoming”(Britzman,1991,p.8;Crandall&Christison,2016,p.12;Da-
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