Overview
- Showcases empirical research and autobiographical narrative on the topic of MFL teachers’ construction of identity in professional contexts
- Brings together practitioners from a range of cross-institutional and cross-departmental backgrounds
- Focuses on transnational MFL teachers’ negotiation of identity in the UK higher education sector
- Represents an original contribution to the field in the current climate of the decline of modern languages as a subject of study in the UK
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About this book
This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others’ experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector. The book offers an insight into a key element of the educational and socio-political debate surrounding MFL in the UK: the teachers’ voices and their sense of agency in constructing their professional identities. The contributors use a combination of empirical research and personal reflection to generate knowledge about MFL teachers’ identity that can enhance how they are perceived in the social and educational establishments and raise awareness of key issues affecting the profession. This book will be of particular interest to language teachers, teacher trainers, applied linguists and students and scholars of modern foreign languages.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Matilde Gallardo is Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK, where she also teaches Applied Linguistics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching
Editors: Matilde Gallardo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27709-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27708-6Published: 17 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27711-6Published: 17 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27709-3Published: 03 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 209
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Teaching, Language Education, Self and Identity, Teaching and Teacher Education, Intercultural Communication