TY - JOUR
T1 - “If Carmen Can Analyze Shakespeare, Everybody Can”
T2 - Positions, Conflicts, and Negotiations in the Narratives of Latina Pre-Service Teachers
AU - Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2018/3/4
Y1 - 2018/3/4
N2 - This study, focusing on the life stories of three pre-service Latina teachers in the United States, explored how they positioned themselves as learners of English and teachers of Spanish in their oral narratives, and how their past experience as minority students shaped their current professional identity negotiations as language teachers. Positioning analysis of their narrative accounts indicated that these female teachers, throughout their education, felt different or isolated because of their ethnic identity, language background, and socioeconomic class. They negotiated memberships in different communities across settings in their lives. Understanding the conflicts and struggles that they experienced and unique strategies that they used to overcome them will hopefully provide insights for all teachers and teacher educators in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts.
AB - This study, focusing on the life stories of three pre-service Latina teachers in the United States, explored how they positioned themselves as learners of English and teachers of Spanish in their oral narratives, and how their past experience as minority students shaped their current professional identity negotiations as language teachers. Positioning analysis of their narrative accounts indicated that these female teachers, throughout their education, felt different or isolated because of their ethnic identity, language background, and socioeconomic class. They negotiated memberships in different communities across settings in their lives. Understanding the conflicts and struggles that they experienced and unique strategies that they used to overcome them will hopefully provide insights for all teachers and teacher educators in linguistically and culturally diverse contexts.
KW - Hispanic teachers
KW - language teacher education
KW - minorities
KW - narrative inquiry
KW - positioning
KW - teacher identity
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U2 - 10.1080/15348458.2017.1415759
DO - 10.1080/15348458.2017.1415759
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044670629
VL - 17
SP - 118
EP - 130
JO - Journal of Language, Identity and Education
JF - Journal of Language, Identity and Education
SN - 1534-8458
IS - 2
ER -