Reported Speech and Reported Mental States in Mentoring Meetings: Exploring Novice Teacher Identities

In this study, we addressed the identity work performed by directly reported speech versus directly reported mental states (e.g., thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and emotions) in situated discourse. Drawing on a corpus of talk produced by novice language teachers during mentoring sessions, the analysis indicates that teachers' direct reports of their own speech tend to foreground their accomplishments and developing expertise, whereas direct...