How Do Language Learning, Teaching, and Transnational Experiences (Re)shape an EFLer’s Identities? A Critical Ethnographic Narrative

• Published in: SAGE open Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 215824402110312 - 215824402110320
• Main Author: Gao, Yang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2021; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Advocacy; Asians; Chinese; Code Switching (Language); College Faculty; Critical Thinking; Doctoral Programs; Educational Experience; Elementary Secondary Education; English (Second Language); Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Innovation; Language Teachers; Language Variation; Learning Processes; Literary criticism; Narratives; Personal Autonomy; Professional Identity; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second language teachers; Self Concept; Socialization; Study Abroad; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher education; Teacher Educators; Teaching Methods; Transnationalism; California (San Jose); China; transnational experience; identity development; language teacher identities; critical ethnographic narrative

Using critical ethnographic narrative as a tool and language socialization as the theoretical stance, the article analyzes excerpts of a language teacher’s life experience and presents findings to join the existing literature. The article indicates that (a) transnational teacher identities develop i...