%0 Journal Article
%T An English Teacher Struggle to Establish Voice in the Periphery
%A Nugrahenny T. Zacharias
%J K@ta : a Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature
%D 2011
%I Petra Christian University
%X This paper explores my identity formation and the struggle to establish voice as a non-native teacher working in the periphery. While publication on non-native speakers¡¯ struggle into academia has been growing in the West, such publication is rare in the periphery where I have been working as an English language teacher for the last seven years. My personal reflection has shown that similar to their non-native colleagues working in the Center, non-native teachers also experienced marginalization that have fostered a perception that their nono-nativeness is a drawback. This leads to an identity of the non-native teacher s into a producer of errors and second-rate citizens despite years of learning English. From this personal narrative, I learned that it is crucial for teacher education programs to address issues of native/non-natives as an attempt to unfasten destructive identity constructions that non-native speakers are accustomed to.
%K non-native teachers
%K identity fastening
%K teachers in the periphery
%K critical consciousness
%U http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18212