ABSTRACT
This article explains ‘short story analysis’, an approach to analysing narrative data, and demonstrates its rationale and methods by drawing on a study that explored the developing identities of a cohort of experienced language teacher educators enrolled in a PhD program at a public university in Colombia, South America. An analysis of an extract from an interview (i.e., a short story) with one of the teacher educators is presented to show how his identity is revealed when telling about how and why he decided on his PhD research topic. This focus teacher challenges what he calls the ‘instrumental’ language teacher education policies and practices of his country, particularly as they apply to indigenous teachers, and reflects on how he desires in his PhD research to study this situation so he can contribute more effectively in the future in his own English teacher education practices.
