“I May Be a Native Speaker but I'm Not Monolingual”: ReimaginingAllTeachers' Linguistic Identities in TESOL

Teacher linguistic identity has so far mainly been researched in terms of whether a teacher identifies (or is identified by others) as a native speaker ( NEST ) or nonnative speaker ( NNEST ) (Moussu & Llurda, 2008; Reis, 2011). Native speakers are presumed to be monolingual, and nonnative speakers, although by definition bilingual, tend to be defined by their perceived deficiency in English. Despite widespread acceptance of Cook's (1999)...