Damian J. Rivers is an Associate Professor at Future University Hakodate, Japan Stephanie Ann Houghton is an Associate Professor at Saga University, Japan

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Identities in “Foreign” Language Education, Damian J. Rivers and Stephanie Ann Houghton 1. The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers, Jose Aguilar2. Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the “Native-Speaker” English Teacher Location in the Sociocultural Context of Japan, Damian J. Rivers 3. Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies, Brian A. McMillan4. Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications, Claudia Kunschak and Felix Giron 5. Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding Through Literature, Melina Porto 6. Re-Imagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice, Deborah Cole And Bryan Meadows7. The L2 Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment, John W. Schwieter8. Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development, Lou Harvey9. Emotive Accounts of the Self During an Erasmus Sojourn Abroad, Sonia Gallucci 10. Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change, Stephanie Ann HoughtonReferences Index

This book is a collection of papers that together offer a bold and refreshingly new take on the many trials and tribulations that ELT professionals across the world—all of them, irrespective of where they come from and what credentials they bring along with them—go through as they negotiate their identities and strive to role-play these new identities against the backdrop of what their profession demands and what the public at large expects of them.

Damian J. Rivers is an Associate Professor at Future University Hakodate, Japan Stephanie Ann Houghton is an Associate Professor at Saga University, Japan

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Identities in “Foreign” Language Education, Damian J. Rivers and Stephanie Ann Houghton 1. The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers, Jose Aguilar2. Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the “Native-Speaker” English Teacher Location in the Sociocultural Context of Japan, Damian J. Rivers 3. Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies, Brian A. McMillan4. Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications, Claudia Kunschak and Felix Giron 5. Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding Through Literature, Melina Porto 6. Re-Imagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice, Deborah Cole And Bryan Meadows7. The L2 Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment, John W. Schwieter8. Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development, Lou Harvey9. Emotive Accounts of the Self During an Erasmus Sojourn Abroad, Sonia Gallucci 10. Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change, Stephanie Ann HoughtonReferences Index

This book is a collection of papers that together offer a bold and refreshingly new take on the many trials and tribulations that ELT professionals across the world—all of them, irrespective of where they come from and what credentials they bring along with them—go through as they negotiate their identities and strive to role-play these new identities against the backdrop of what their profession demands and what the public at large expects of them.

Damian J. Rivers is an Associate Professor at Future University Hakodate, Japan Stephanie Ann Houghton is an Associate Professor at Saga University, Japan

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Identities in “Foreign” Language Education, Damian J. Rivers and Stephanie Ann Houghton 1. The Institutional and Beyond: On the Identity Displays of Foreign Language Teachers, Jose Aguilar2. Implications for Identity: Inhabiting the “Native-Speaker” English Teacher Location in the Sociocultural Context of Japan, Damian J. Rivers 3. Professional Identities Shaped by Resistance to Target Language Only Policies, Brian A. McMillan4. Language, Culture and Identity: Transcultural Practices and Theoretical Implications, Claudia Kunschak and Felix Giron 5. Social Identifications and Culturally Located Identities: Developing Cultural Understanding Through Literature, Melina Porto 6. Re-Imagining Sociolinguistic Identification in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice, Deborah Cole And Bryan Meadows7. The L2 Imagined Learning Community: Developing Identity and Increasing Foreign Language Investment, John W. Schwieter8. Foreign Language Motivation and Social Identity Development, Lou Harvey9. Emotive Accounts of the Self During an Erasmus Sojourn Abroad, Sonia Gallucci 10. Setting Standards for Intercultural Communication: Universalism and Identity Change, Stephanie Ann HoughtonReferences Index

This book is a collection of papers that together offer a bold and refreshingly new take on the many trials and tribulations that ELT professionals across the world—all of them, irrespective of where they come from and what credentials they bring along with them—go through as they negotiate their identities and strive to role-play these new identities against the backdrop of what their profession demands and what the public at large expects of them.