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An activity theory perspective on Vietnamese preservice English teachers’ identity construction in relation to tensions, emotion and agency

Content Provider	SAGE Publishing
Author	Nguyen, Minh Hue Ngo, Xuan Minh
Copyright Year	2023
Abstract	This study examined the professional becoming activities of three final-year Vietnamese preservice teachers (PSTs) of English across the past, present and (imagined) future in different contexts. The study used narrative data from narrative frames and individual interviews and drew on third-generation cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to explore the participants’ language teacher identity construction in relation to the tensions they experienced in these activities and the ways in which they responded to the tensions emotionally and agentively. The findings from activity system analysis and thematic analysis suggested that tensions, emotion, agency and identity existed in unity as tensions triggered emotions that motivated attempts to resolve tensions and construct language teacher identity. Identity, in turn, guided the participants’ efforts in addressing the tensions and emotions. We discuss theoretical implications including a model of language teachers’ professional becoming that is grounded in the relationships among tensions–emotion–agency–identity and pedagogical implications for mediating language teacher identity development.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13621688221151046?download=true
ISSN	13621688
Journal	Language Teaching Research (LTR)
e-ISSN	14770954
DOI	10.1177/13621688221151046
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2023-01-26
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2023
Subject Keyword	CHAT agency EFL emotion teacher identity tensions
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language

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