ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the selected journal papers published between 2003 and 2013 that are related to the topic of language-teacher identity and narratives. It shows that it is worthwhile to study teacher's stories to learn about their challenging experiences in their study and work environments, since their experiences play a significant part in constructing and reconstructing their professional identity as teacher. The chapter discusses the results of the selected research in terms of understanding teacher's identity, perspectives of nonnative teachers of English of multilingual backgrounds, perspectives of novice teachers of English. An article was considered to match the topic tentatively if it had any two of the following keywords in its title: teacher, reflection, identity, narratives, NNES, and TESOL. Liu and Xu is a narrative study examining how ELT reform in China, as a prevailing macroclimate influencing education in China, affects the identity of teachers in a workplace in which liberal and traditional pedagogies exist.
