ABSTRACT
I have been associated with teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) for the past 40 years in two main roles: fi rst as an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher, and later as a language teacher educator. I have lived and worked in Ireland, South Korea, Singapore, and now Canada and presented in many diff erent countries for many years. Recently, I have had to slow down a bit, however, because I had to have eye surgery that literally left me face down for ten days and nights as well as two months of total inactivity; and because of this there was not much for me to do except refl ect on the diff erent professional roles as EFL teacher and language teacher educator I have experienced over these 40-something years. As my research area is on refl ective practice in the fi eld of TESOL, I have been especially interested in attempting to answer one question in particular: Who am I as a teacher educator?
