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Exploring Language Teacher Roles as Teacher Identity

The article presents the concepts of teacher identity, how it relates to the particular characteristics of language teaching, and how teacher identity is developed through the teacher roles. In this article, teacher identity refers to the inservice PPG teachers’ perception on the teacher roles as teacher identity. Drawing on a case study, including the use of questionnaires, a focus group discussion, the article demonstrates the relevant relation between teachers’ identities and their roles in the classroom which comprises: ‘teachers as teaching/learning material developer’; ‘teachers as assessors and evaluators’; ‘teachers as facilitators’; ‘teachers as researcher’; ‘teachers as learners’; and, ‘teachers as researchers’. Implications for policy makers and practitioners