IDENTITY: CONCEPT, FEATURES AND TYPES

Tóm tắt

Identity has interrelationships with language. It is also interrelated to the concepts of
teacher identity, language teacher professional identity, which are the topics of many recent studies
for their contribution to teaching language. This article is a small literature review on identity. After
collecting and exploring materials consisting of books, articles, theses, among which about thirteen
materials were chosen as the main references to analyze, the article summarizes and interprets the
ways identity is defned, its features and classifcation. Hopefully, this article can provide a theoretical
base for doing research on identity, teacher identity, language teacher professional identity, the
interrelationships between language and identities and other related issues.