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Foreign Language Teaching Assistants' Development: How Do Their Ideal Language Teacher Selves Unfold Over Time?, Jhon Alvaro Cuesta Medina
Foreign Language Teaching Assistants' Development: How Do Their Ideal Language Teacher Selves Unfold Over Time?, Jhon Alvaro Cuesta Medina
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Using Dörnyei’s (2005) L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) and Kubanyiova’s (2007, 2009) model of ‘possible language teacher selves’ as main theoretical frameworks, this multiple case study explored four language teaching assistants’ developmental patterns with regards to their ideal language teacher selves over a two-year period. It also examined the challenges and limitations that these TAs faced, as well as the institutional support that they received over time. The data sources from this study included semi-structured interviews, class observations, and student artifacts (teaching philosophies, ideal teacher selves and observation reflections). A thematic analysis of these sources revealed how TAs conceptualized their …