The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Identity (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Identity is the first comprehensive, systematic survey of the field.It offers a broad, cutting-edge, and authoritative overview of language teacher identity, highlighting its growing complexity and global relevance. This Handbook is organized into six interconnected, sequential parts: theoretical perspectives, analytical and methodological approaches, development and ideologies, innovations, professional development, and specific language teaching contexts.Contributors engage with perspectives and possibilities on an international scale, addressing issues of racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, linguicism, accentism, native-speakerism, neo-nationalism, neoliberalism, and (dis)ability, exploring how these intersect with language teachers’ professionalization, sense of belonging, authenticity, and legitimacy.Written in accessible language, thirty-four carefully curated chapters identify the major trends and developments in the field, including transla