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Foreign Nationals on a PGCE Modern Languages Course: Questions of national identity

SUMMARY I begin this paper by identifying a phenomenon worthy of research, that is the increasing proportion of foreign nationals on PGCE modern languages courses across Britain. I make the point that while it is interesting to explore how these teachers develop professionally, what is needed is an in-depth study of how their sense of self-identity develops. One aspect of this self-identity is national identity, the specific focus of this paper. After discussing what I mean by national identity and how it relates to theories of multiple subjectivities, I present data from interviews with eight French, German and Spanish nationals attending a PGCE course. The data show how while talking about their teaching experiences, individuals sometimes distance themselves from their putative home nationality and other times align themselves with this nationality.