TY - BOOK ID - 77915196 TI - Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity PY - 2012 SN - 1280120924 9786613524782 1847696481 9781847696489 9781280120923 9781847696472 1847696473 9781847696465 1847696465 PB - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, DB - UniCat KW - English language -- Study and teaching -- Japan. KW - English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers. KW - English teachers -- In-service training -- Japan. KW - English teachers -- Japan. KW - English teachers -- Training of -- Japan. KW - English language KW - English teachers KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Language KW - Germanic languages KW - Language teachers KW - Study and teaching KW - Japanese speakers KW - In-service training KW - Training of KW - Literature teachers KW - EFL. KW - English language learners. KW - Japan. KW - Japanese university English teacher identity. KW - gender. KW - professional identity. KW - teacher identity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77915196 AB - This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning. It focuses on an under-researched, and yet highly influential group of teachers that shape English language education in Japan: Japanese university English teachers. In three interrelated narrative studies, it examines how four relatively new teachers develop professional identity as they become members of the community of practice of university English teachers; how gender impacts the professional identity of seven female professors ranging in age from their early 30s to their 60s; and how one teacher’s teaching practices and beliefs reflect her personal and professional identity. ER -