A community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. This study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. To this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

Researchers often conceal or reveal parts of their identity to ensure the success fieldwork. Yet, connection between researchers and research participants can now be maintained via social networking sites. This raises new questions about ethics practicalities negotiating during after The paper draws on a narrative ethnography concealing my lesbian ethnographic in Bolivia. I demonstrate that soc...

Researcher identity has been widely studied as central to doctoral education. However, little is known about students’ emic conceptualization of what represents researcher based on their lived experience. Using a sample 24 Chinese students in Australia, this study adopts volunteer-employed photography (VEP) facilitate the participants’ delineation identity. Findings reveal that indexed at three...

considering the crucial role textbook evaluation plays in any educational system, this study evaluated 2 textbook series with respect to the identity options they offer to iranian learners of english. data were gathered based on reading passages, dialogues, and pictures of right path to english (rpe) and cambridge english for schools (ces). although this study is mainly qualitative in nature, q...

In a visual surveillance application where a network of cameras is used to observe many people, there are numerous situations where the consistent identification of a person is an important component in the system. There are many approaches to describing the appearance of a person. In this paper, we examine a combination of two identity descriptors: standard MPEG-7 color descriptors, and spatia...