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"I Never Knew I Was a Bilingual": Reimagining Teacher Identities in TESOL
Abstract
This study examines imagined professional and linguistic communities available to preservice and in-service English as a second language and English as a foreign language teachers enrolled in one TESOL program. A discursive analysis of the students' positioning in their linguistic autobiographies suggests that the traditional discourse of linguistic competence positions students as members of one of two communities, native speakers or non-native speakers/L2 learners. The analysis also suggests that contemporary theories of bilingualism and second language acquisition, in particular Cook's (1992, 1999) notion of multicompetence, open up an alternative imagined community, that of multicompetent, bilingual, and multilingual speakers. This option allows some teachers to construe themselves and their future students as legitimate L2 users rather than as failed native speakers of the target language.
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- Authors
- Pavlenko, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Language, Identity & Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2003-10
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 251-268
- ISSN
- 1532-7701 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-8458
- OpenAlex
- W2043625241
- Cited by
- 477
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 16.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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