Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching

Matilde Gallardo is Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK, where she also teaches Applied Linguistics.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Negotiating Identity in Modern Foreign Language Teaching (Matilde Gallardo).- Part 1: Modern Foreign Language Teachers' Construction of Identity in Professional Contexts.- Chapter 2: Transcultural Voices: Exploring Notions of Identity in Transational Language Teachers' Personal Narratives (Matilde Gallardo).- Chapter 3: Language Teacher/Translator Gendered Identity Construction- from Dilemmatic to Agentive. Big Lives Through Small Stories (Tanya Linaker).- Chapter 4: 'When I Am Teaching German, I Put on a Persona': Exploring Lived Experiences of Teaching a Modern Foreign Language (M. Luisa Pérez Cavana).- Chapter 5: Becoming a Language Professional in Higher Education: a Psycho-Social Case Study (Donata Puntil).- Chapter 6: Modern Language Teacher Identity Formation Through Engagement with Exploratory Practice. The Future Will Tell (Assia Slimani-Rolls).- Chapter 7: How a Community of Practice Shapes a Modern Foreign Language Teacher's Views ofHerself as a Teacher Over Time and Space:a Biographical Case Study (Christina Richardson).- Part 2: Modern Foreign Language Teachers' Personal Stories.- Chapter 8: Constructing Hybrid Identities in the Language Classroom (Lorenza Boscaini, Debora Quattrocchi).- Chapter 9: The Journey to Becoming a Language Teacher: Motivation and Engagement with the Process of Professional Development and Lifelong Learning (Laura Puente Martin, Susanne Winchester).