CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TAIWAN: AN INTRODUCTION

CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TAIWAN: AN INTRODUCTION

In the last two decades, the importance of identity research has been recognized in Applied Linguistics, TESOL and SLA. More specifically, identity has been investigated in response to globalization. For instance, the 2016 special issue of TESOL Quarterly features “Language Teacher Identity in (Multi)lingual Educational Contexts” (Varghese, Motha, Park, Reeves, & Trent), and De Costa and Norton (2017) highlight a transdisciplinary approach to language teacher identity in a recent special issue of The Modern Language Journal. Indeed, identity has become a significant research area in the globalized age.