Language Teaching Research (LTR)

Vol. 29, Issue 8
November 2025

SPECIAL ISSUE:

Tensions in Language Teachers’ Professional Identity Development and Coping Strategies

GUEST EDITORS:

Zia Tajeddin
Tarbiat Modares University

Bedrettin Yazan University of Texas at San Antonio

There are 11 articles, including a guest editor article by Zia Tajeddin and a co-authored article by Zia Tajeddin, Minoo Alemi, and Zahra Maleknia

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ltr/current

TOC:

1.Introduction: Language teacher identity tensions: An overview

Zia Tajeddin

2.Language teachers’ identity tensions and professional practice in intercultural teaching

Yang (Frank) Gong
Xuesong (Andy) Gao

3.Going beyond boundaries: A collaborative autoethnographic study of three teachers’ negotiation of cognitive/emotional dissonances

Miso Kim
Eunhae Cho
Sungwoo Kim

4.Identity tensions of in-service teacher educators: A narrative inquiry

Rukiye Eryılmaz
Kenan Dikilitaş

5.‘Agree to disagree’: Reconciling an English teacher’s identity tensions in negotiating an educational reform through a community of practice perspective

Yuan Gao
Yaqiong Cui
Peter I. De Costa

6.An activity theory perspective on Vietnamese preservice English teachers’ identity construction in relation to tensions, emotion and agency

Minh Hue Nguyen
Xuan Minh Ngo

7.Borderland negotiations of personal–professional being and belonging: A duoethnography

Nathanael Rudolph
Aya Matsuda

8.Torn between socio-political mandates and professional identity: Teachers’ collaborative reflection on their identity tensions

Zia Tajeddin
Minoo Alemi
Zahra Maleknia


9.Drama-in-teacher-education: A ‘metaxical’ approach for juxtaposing EFL teacher identity and tensions

Özgehan Uştuk

10.Becoming teachers of emergent bilinguals: Navigating ideological and identity tensions

Baburhan Uzum
Bedrettin Yazan
Netta Avineri

11.The pedagogical and socio-affective dimensions of identity tensions and teacher agency: Case studies of university English teachers teaching online

Yueting Xu
Jian Tao