The complexities of being and becoming language teachers: issues of identity and investment

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AudienciaPúblico en generales_ES
CoberturaMéxicoes_ES
Fecha de ingreso2026-09-15T00:30:36Z
Fecha de publicación2016-02-22
ResumenThis comparative study examines the learning trajectories of two groups of Mexican novice language teachers, three locally raised and educated ones and three repatriates from the USA. The study makes use of a combination of retrospective life-history research and the analysis of academic documents to look at the interrelationship between teachers’ identities and their degree of investment in academic and professional activities. The analysis revealed marked differences in the ways in which these two groups of teachers’ identities have been developed. While the locally educated teachers have constructed strong and articulated identities as a result of a stable family context and smooth transitions in their lives, the development of their returnee counterparts’ identities has been characterized by fragmentation due to the little, or lack of, stability in their home contexts as well as the complex and painful transitions in their lives. The paper discusses the impact that these differences have on participants’ degrees of investment in educational and work-related opportunities available to them in their contexts. Implications for researchers, language teacher trainers and applied linguistics academic program administrators are provided.es_ES
Doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2015.1136318es_ES
URIhttps://riuat.uat.edu.mx/handle/123456789/2557
Idiomaenes_ES
EditorialRoutledgees_ES
RelaciónLanguage and Intercultural Communicationes_ES
URL relacionadohttps://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2015.1136318es_ES
DerechosAcceso restringido / Suscripción (Metadatos de producción científica)es_ES
Licenciahttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16eces_ES
FuenteLanguage and Intercultural Communication
Palabra claveContext (archaeology)es_ES
Palabra claveIdentity (music)es_ES
Palabra clavePedagogyes_ES
Palabra claveSociologyes_ES
Palabra claveFragmentation (computing)es_ES
Palabra claveInvestment (military)es_ES
Palabra claveHigher educationes_ES
Palabra claveMathematics educationes_ES
Palabra clavePsychologyes_ES
Palabra clavePolitical sciencees_ES
Palabra claveComputer sciencees_ES
ClasificaciónTeacher Education and Leadership Studieses_ES
TítuloThe complexities of being and becoming language teachers: issues of identity and investmentes_ES
TipoArtículoes_ES
ArbitradoHa sido Arbitradoes_ES
AutorMora, Alberto
AutorTrejo, Paulina
AutorRoux, Ruth
AutorMora, Albertoes_ES
AutorTrejo, Paulinaes_ES
AutorRoux, Ruthes_ES
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
InstituciónUniversidad Autónoma de Tamaulipases_ES
Número2es_ES
Rango de páginas182-198es_ES
URL relacionadahttps://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2015.1136318
Tipo de artículoIndexado
Tipo de artículoIndexadoes_ES
Volumen16es_ES

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