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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Academic Optimism Profiles and Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment in a High‐Stakes System: A Latent Profile Analysis From Türkiye

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examined how primary teachers' school culture, conceptualised as Academic Optimism (AO), relates to teachers' conceptions of assessment in Türkiye, where Assessment for Learning is promoted within an enduring testing culture. Using a cross‐sectional survey of 558 primary teachers, we validated measurement models for AO and Teachers'
Özgür Ercek, Coşkun Erdağ
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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
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Headwinds and Tailwinds of Trans‐Speakerism

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1854-1865, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Trans‐speakerism is a concept rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion that strives to empower all language speakers, teachers, and researchers irrespective of their first languages, cultures, or speakerhoods. The surplus model of trans‐speakerism (based on who one already is and who one can become) rejects the deficit model of native ...
Takaaki Hiratsuka
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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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Building a Professional Imaginary of Writing Pedagogy: Working With Teacher Knowledge and Beliefs About Writing

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, January/February/March 2026.
In this paper, The Professional Imaginary of Writing Pedagogy is presented as an ideal. This imaginary brings teacher knowledge about the social imaginary for literacy education into relation with teacher professional knowledge and beliefs about writing, to promote pedagogies and practices for writing that are inclusive, expansive, responsive and ...
Clare Dowdall
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