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Where do you stand in the Circles? Identity construction and language use of EFL teachers in Japanese higher education TAN, Liang, Ye 近畿大学 Kindai University EFL teachers cultural capital identity construction Kachru’s circles of English This paper is an in-depth interview study of six experienced EFL teachers and how their language use is influenced by the social institutions under which they operate. Despite their widely differing cultural and national backgrounds, an interpretive constructivist analysis of the interviews found the following themes to be a common backdrop in their experiences: (1) identity construction and language use, (2) control over curriculum, and (3) English as cultural capital. Examined in the light of Bourdieu’s (1986) cultural capital, Kachru’s (1986) Circles of English, and Norton’s (2001) imagined communities, this study describes how the historical path dependency of social institutions can influence the manner in which individual EFL teachers negotiate their positionality, depending on where they stand in the larger social structure. 近畿大学全学共通教育機構教養・外国語教育センター 2024-11-30 eng departmental bulletin paper AM https://kindai.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2002252 2432454X 近畿大学教養・外国語教育センター紀要（外国語編） KINDAI UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR LIBERAL ARTS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION JOURNAL (FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITION) 15 2 53 82 https://kindai.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2002252/files/AA12515036-20241130-0053.pdf application/pdf 967.9 KB