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Kazakh EFL Teachers’ Professional Identity

Journal of Educational Sciences
This study examines the professional identity of teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan. A qualitative research design, including semi-structured interviews, was employed to explore the multifaceted aspects of identity formation in the context of language teaching.
M. Seitova, Z. Khalmatova, L. Kazykhankyzy   +2 more
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“I Wanted to Show I Could Do This on My Own”: Vulnerability and Professional Becoming in the Age of ChatGPT

TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), particularly OpenAI's ChatGPT, has sparked global debate in education regarding authorship, ethics, and knowledge production. While much research highlights AI's affordances and risks, less attention has been paid to how early‐career multilingual teacher educators navigate this terrain ...
Amr Rabie‐Ahmed, Curtis Green‐Eneix
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Accent and Appearance in Pre‐Service English Teacher Identity: Embodied Language Ideologies in the Political Economy of Language Education in Türkiye

TESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how two pre‐service English teachers in Türkiye navigate the racialized (whiteness‐Europeanness‐indexed) and marketized legitimacy regimes of the private English language teaching sector. Drawing on a language teacher identity lens and a political economy account of accent commodification, we analyze the contrasting ...
Onur Özkaynak, Peter Sayer
wiley   +1 more source

Associations among EFL Teachers' Professional Identity, Professional Vitality, and Creativity

Teaching English Language, 2015
Teachers' professional identity, professional vitality and creativity are three major factors that appear to affect teachers' professional life in EFL contexts. The main purpose of this study was to scrutinize the network of associations among these three variables and their respective subscales. Participants of this study were 300 Iranian EFL teachers
Khany, Reza, Malekzadeh, Parvin
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Strategies of Professional Development for EFL and Technology Teachers [PDF]

Education Journal, 2013
This research aims at showing the most common strategies of professional development for EFL and technology teachers and revealing if the specialty, gender and academic levels affect adaptation of these strategies. The descriptive analytical method was followed in this research.
Abou Shoqair, Mohamed Soliman, Abou Shaaban, Sumer Salman   +1 more
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The role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in EFL teachers' passion for self-directed professional development

Acta Psychologica
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has been reported to affect various aspects of second language (L2) education in recent years. However, the interplay of AI and teacher professionalism has gained scant attention among researchers.
Na Sun, Yihan Sun
doaj   +1 more source

Teacher Educators as Sustainability Change Agents: Identity, Agency, and Disciplinary Cultures in EFL and Social Sciences Programmes

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Sustainability education (SE) is increasingly recognized as a critical aspect of higher education and teacher education due to global environmental, social, and economic challenges. However, limited research has examined how teacher educators in developing countries, including Iran, conceptualize and implement sustainability in their teaching ...
Zahra Tavakkoli, Tian Hui, Parvin Ghaemmaghami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the constructivist mentoring program in developing EFL teacher professionalism: A qualitative approach

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This paper investigates the implementation of constructivist learning, as it was practiced by five EFL teachers at a vocational high school in Indonesia.
Kurniawan Yudhi Nugroho, Zulfa Sakhiyya, Mursid Saleh, Januarius Mujiyanto, Dwi Rukmini   +4 more
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Teacher Research in TESOL

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 767-786, June 2026.
Abstract This article offers a state‐of‐the‐art, critical discussion of teacher research as characterized in TESOL, applied linguistics, and wider educational literatures. We offer a reconceptualization of teacher research that recognizes teacher priorities and perspectives as distinct from academic ones.
Jason Anderson, Richard Smith
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Professional Teachers’ Questions in EFL Classroom

Jadila: Journal of Development and Innovation in Language and Literature Education, 2020
In English language classroom, teachers’ questions are important parts of teaching English language. Teachers need to know what kind of questions which potentially support students learning the target language. However, students did not actively participate in learning particularly when responding to teachers’ questions. To overcome this problem, it is
Shelly Navtria, Mulyadi Mulyadi, Hilda Puspita   +2 more
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