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—<i>all</i> 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.

- Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Professor of Linguistics, State University at Campinas, Brazil,

This volume challenges a number of key assumptions made in the field of applied linguistics and pushes the boundaries of research on identity in the context of foreign language learning and teaching.

- Ahmer Mahboob, Senior Lecturer of Linguistics, The University of Sydney, Australia,

The major strength of this book is that it brings together research conducted in several different countries, which allows readers to explore additional language identity development in a variety of different settings; this is invaluable because, as Kunschak and Girón exemplify in chapter 4, this process can proceed differently for language learners from different cultures, educational contexts and so on. Though the title of the book may be misleading, the content is not limited to research on foreign language education and includes research on second language settings as well … To sum up, this is a valuable volume for both identity researchers and additional language teaching practitioners.

- Ksenia Gnevsheva, University of Canterbury, UK, LINGUIST 23:31