“…Thus, in order to investigate such object of study, this research adopts, as theoretical point of departure, some of the studies on teachers' identity carried out in the national and international field, as well as, on EAL teaching or general teaching FREEMAN, 2001, BEIJAARD et al, 2004, VARGHESE et al, 2005, TSUI , 2007RAMOS, 2008, ECKERT-HOFF, 2009GOLOMBEK, 2011, KANNO;STUART, 2011;SCOZ, 2011, to cite just a few). Therefore, this study aims to have an interdisciplinary and critical view of the object of study, and, in this way, to contribute to the field of the English as a foreign language teacher education (EALTE).…”