Abstract

TORRES CEPEDA, Nancy María  and  HOLGUIN, Bertha Ramos. The Dynamic Process of Student-Teachers' Construction of Identity as Future Teachers. Cuad. linguist. hisp. [online]. 2021, n.38, pp.169-188.  Epub Mar 09, 2022. ISSN 0121-053X.  https://doi.org/10.19053/0121053x.n38.2021.11205.

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative narrative-inquiry study aimed at exploring what English as a Foreign Language (EFL) student-teachers' life stories revealed about their identity construction as future teachers. The project was carried out with eighth-semester student-teachers from a public university in Tunja, Boyacá (Colombia). Hence, the data collection drew upon written life stories and in-depth interviews. The findings suggest that critical factors helped student-teachers construct their identities as future EFL teachers. These factors are all tied to the student-teachers' previous experiences as language learners themselves, a connection and affiliation they established with their teacher-educators as projected images they have of themselves as future teachers. Moreover, real teaching experiences were opportunities for student-teachers to make sense of the myriad of issues in education, which made them develop positions towards education as future teachers.

Keywords : identity; teacher identity; life stories; English as a Foreign Language; student-teachers; agency.

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