ABSTRACT
Current research trends in applied linguistics have also recognized the significance of approaching teacher professionalism through the lens of identity and its implications for language teaching and language teacher education. The process of auditioning terms and identities has no defined endpoint; new life experiences bring out new ways of being, leading to ongoing negotiations of how one prefers to be identified. The author's autoethnodrama is based primarily on his memories of past experiences and transcripts of personal online text exchanges and digital journal entries. The process of analysis, interpretation, and writing in autoethnographic research is often intertwined because writing is a mode of inquiry and an essential part of the analysis and interpretation process. What sets an autoethnodrama apart from a typical autoethnography is the ultimate goal of representing our findings through a performative text.
