Profile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Jul 2017)

High School EFL Teachers’ Identity and Their Emotions Towards Language Requirements

  • Julio César Torres-Rocha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v19n2.60220
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 2
pp. 41 – 55

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This is a study on high school English as a foreign language Colombian teacher identity. Using an interpretive research approach, I explored the influence of the National Bilingual Programme on the reconstruction of teacher identity. This study focuses on how teachers feel about language requirements associated with a language policy. Three instruments were used to collect the data for this research: a survey to find out teachers’ familiarity with the policy and explore their views on the language policy and language requirements and other aspects of their identity; autobiographical accounts to establish teachers’ trajectories as language learners and as professional English teachers; and semi-structured interviews to delve into their feelings and views on their language policy and requirements for English teachers.

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