Exploring Development of EMI Teacher Identities and Emotions During a Collaborative Teaching Practice: A Sociocultural Perspective

The burgeoning English‐medium instruction (EMI) programs have aroused worldwide scholarly interest in giving language support for EMI subject teachers and their identity‐informed professional development. This study explored how an EMI subject teacher's identities and emotions were intricately...

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Published in:TESOL quarterly Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 1356 - 1385
Main Authors: Zhang, Shanshan, Xu, Jinfen
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.09.2025
Subjects:
Attachment
Collaboration
Cooperative learning
Educational Practices
Educational programs
Emotional Experience
Emotional experiences
Emotions
English (Second Language)
English as a second language
English as a second language instruction
English as a second language teaching methods
English for academic purposes
English language
English teachers
Ethnography
Foreign languages
Identity
Learning
Primacy
Professional development
Professional identity
Professional training
Second language teachers
Sociocultural factors
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching
Team Teaching
ISSN:0039-8322, 1545-7249
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Summary:The burgeoning English‐medium instruction (EMI) programs have aroused worldwide scholarly interest in giving language support for EMI subject teachers and their identity‐informed professional development. This study explored how an EMI subject teacher's identities and emotions were intricately interlinked before and after his co‐teaching practice with an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher at a university in Midwestern China. Ethnographic tools including interviews, observations, and small talks were used over a 10‐month collaborative program. The findings show that the participant teacher's identities and emotions were interdependent with each other and mediated by collaborative teaching practice. Futhermore, emotional attachment to English enhancement and deep engagement in co‐teaching contributed to (re)construction of teacher identities as a content teacher, a competent English user, and an English learning facilitator. The participant's emotional attachment was explicated by his perezhivanie, or the emotional experience of his previous English learning and the emergent EMI teaching contexts. The study highlights the primacy of reconstructing teacher identities and supporting teacher emotional experiences in EMI teacher training and education programs.
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ISSN:0039-8322
1545-7249
DOI:10.1002/tesq.3357