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Teacher Self Efficacy

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EFL Teacher: “being an English teacher, based on one’s characteristic, he/she might be able to find appropriate pedagogies of teaching and interpretations for English teaching fitting one’s personality” (Lin & Chien, 2010, p. 1). Self-efficacy: According to Bandura (1997), self-efficacy is defined as “beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments” (p.3). In the present study, self-efficacy is operationally defined as the scores of the teachers on the self-efficacy questionnaire developed by Tschannen – Moran and Woolfolk Hoy (2001). Teacher Identity: Teacher identity refers to the “focus on how one’s intrapersonal individuality self, which includes one’s emotions, dispositions, …show more content…

Teacher professional identity grows over a continuum (Olsen, 2008) in relation to dimensions of self, which emerge through discursive reflection and discourse regarding teaching knowledge and experiences (Beauchamp & Thomas, 2009). Identity can act as an agentive source of increased efficacy. Teachers who feel efficacious are more likely to stay in challenging school setting (Day et al., 2006). Beauchamp and Thomas (2009) suggest that the discourse on teacher identity has to examine the role of self, emotion, stories, reflection, agency, and context in identity formation.
Rodgers and Scott (2008), consider assumptions of identity in general, as,(1) dependent upon and formed within multiple contexts which bring social, cultural, political, and historical forces to bear upon that formation, (2) formed in relationship with others and involves emotions, (3) shifting, unstable, and multiple, and (4) involves the construction and reconstruction of meaning through stories over time. (p. …show more content…

315). Moreover, Brown (2006) believes that “teacher identity emerges best as a developmental transformation” (p. 686).
2.4 Teacher Cultural identity
According to Block (2007), identities “are socially constructed, self-conscious, ongoing narratives that individuals perform, interpret and project in dress, bodily movements, actions and language (p. 27). Moreover, Bialystok and Hakuta (1994) mention that “who we are is shaped in part by what language we speak (p. 134).
As Gray (2000), states English language teaching (ELT) materials produced are not considered for practice, they are goods filled with culture.
English language teaching materials produced in Britain and the United States for use in classrooms around the world are sources not only of grammar, lexis, and activities for language practice, but like Levi’s jeans and Coca Cola, commodities which are imbued with cultural promise. (p.

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