Narrating Their Lives: Examining English Language Teachers' Professional Identities within the Classroom

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Narrating Their Lives: Examining English Language Teachers’ Professional Identities within the Classroom         Narrating Their Lives: Examining English Language Teachers’ Professional Identities within the Classroom Lía D. Kamhi-Stein, Editor California State University, Los Angeles Foreword by Stephanie Vandrick Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2013 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America    Printed on acid-free paper ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03499-4 2016  2015  2014  2013     4  3  2  1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kamhi-Stein, Lía D. English language teachers narrating their lives : from the construction of professional identities to the construction of the language classroom / Lia D. Kamhi-Stein, PhD.   pages cm. “Educational Sociolinguistics” presented at the 2007 Annual Conference of the California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL).” Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-472-12014-7 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-472-03499-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. English teachers--Training of--Social aspects 2. English teachers--Self-rating of. 3. English teachers--Training of--Research--Methodology. 4. Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects. 5. English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers--Evaluation. 6. Second language acquisition--Research--Methodology. 7. Communication in education— Social aspects. 8. Language and education. I. Title. PE1066.K36 2013 428.0071—dc23 ∞ Dedication A mi marido, Alan Paul Stein (1947–2008), que me enseñó que se puede vivir y morir con dignidad. I know he’s smiling at me from up there. ...