Abstract Ideals have been linked to identity, motivation and stamina. To investigate language teachers’ ideals in depth, this study employs a novel complex, three-step method, analysing data collected through drawings and one-to-one reflective interviews with a voice centred relational method (VCRM) for analysis. VCRM conserves the interviewees’ personal voice and includes the researcher as part of the process of analysis. This paper will show how the complex method can be employed and how the findings derived from it allow insights into the forces that keep teachers going, their origins, and their potential for integrating change. Thus, qualitative data collection methods combined with a voice-centred analysis method can be harnessed to enhance our understanding of teacher ideals and the tensions between external demands, internal standards, and different cultures language teachers have to cope with.

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在图像和访谈中调查语言教师的理想

摘要 理想与身份、动机和耐力有关。为了深入调查语言教师的理想，本研究采用了一种新颖复杂的三步法，通过以语音为中心的关系方法 (VCRM) 分析通过绘图和一对一反思性访谈收集的数据进行分析。VCRM 保留了受访者的个人声音，并将研究人员作为分析过程的一部分。本文将展示如何使用复杂的方法，以及从中得出的结果如何让我们深入了解保持教师前进的力量、他们的起源以及他们整合变革的潜力。因此，可以利用定性数据收集方法结合以声音为中心的分析方法来增强我们对教师理想的理解以及外部需求、内部标准、