On Becoming Language Education Professionals: Reframing Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Language Teacher Identity Negotiations
Identity, Multilingualism and CALL - Responding to New Global Realities - Liudmila Klimanova
Patrick Mannion [+ ]
University of South Florida
Patrick Mannion received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology from the University of South Florida. His research interests include Systemic Functional Linguistics, genre approaches to literacy, educational technology, and multimodality. He was about 20 years of experience teaching English as a foreign language in schools in Japan.
John Liontas [+ ]
University of South Florida
Description
This study describes doctoral students’ identity work within a Community of Practice, which developed in a course on educational technology use in L2 education. Course activities (collaborative digital storytelling, asynchronous discussions) positioned them as developing professionals and enabled them to provide mutual support and delineate ideal practices of language educators.