A BIBLIOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN BRAZIL: AN UP-DATING

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to up-date the bibliographic study of studies on the issue of the English language teacher professional identity in Brazil done in 2007 by Quevedo-Camargo e Ramos (in press), by means of electronic search. We focus on the studies published after the 2007, therefore approaching researches from 2006 to October of 2008 aiming at verifying both the contributions of these studies and the possible discoveries and differences in regard to the previous study. We also aim at contributing to form an inventory of constitutive elements of the identity of de English language teacher in Brazil. Six researches meeting the established criteria were found: four articles and two MA dissertations. Overall, the studies about identity define it as being socio-historical-culturally constructed, always in a process,  multifaceted, non-fixed and fragmented and that such studies have received growing attention by researchers, considering the amount of articles found within two years – and reviewed in the scope of this article – if compared to the researches found by Quevedo-Camargo e Ramos (in press).Key-words: bibliographical search, identity, English language teachers.