Unique affordances of 3D multi‐user virtual environments (e.g., immersive simulation, avatar tele/copresence) have attracted language teachers and researchers to explore the effects of Second Life (SL) on learners’ language outcomes and perceptions. Research on such a synergy of language education and virtual learning has suggested learners’ heightened motivation, improved communication skills, boosted confidence, and developed avatar identity. Nevertheless, the target population in prior research was predominately language learners; teachers’ professional development and beliefs in 3D virtual teaching are relatively under‐researched. Motivated by action research, this case study explores how an ESL teacher switched her role from an experienced classroom‐based teacher to an SL “newbie” teacher, thus reconstructing her teacher identity and fostering professional growth. Coinciding with narrative inquiry, her verbatim account was documented in her critical reflections in blogging, shadowed and interviewed by the researcher as her mentor. Her story epitomises an online teacher’s resilience in striving to equip herself with a new skill set and new understandings of online teaching vis‐à‐vis challenges encountered, strategies employed, and lessons learned through critical reflections in dialogue blogging. These aspects open a new avenue for research and pedagogy in virtual teacher training and professional development through action research in the 3D virtual environment.

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通过行动研究恢复“新手”老师的3D虚拟教学轨迹，韧性和专业发展：一个叙事案例研究

3D多用户虚拟环境的独特能力（例如，沉浸式仿真，虚拟形象远距/临场感）吸引了语言老师和研究人员，探索“第二人生”（SL）对学习者的语言结果和感知的影响。对这种语言教育与虚拟学习的协同作用的研究表明，学习者的动机增强，沟通技巧提高，自信心增强以及虚拟形象的形成。但是，先前研究的目标人群主要是语言学习者；对教师的专业发展和对3D虚拟教学的信念的研究相对较少。在行动研究的激励下，本案例研究探讨了ESL老师如何将其角色从经验丰富的课堂老师转变为SL的“新手”老师，从而重建她的老师身份并促进专业发展。与叙述性查询相吻合，她的逐字记录记录在她对博客的批判性反思中，受到研究者作为导师的阴影和采访。她的故事体现了在线老师在为自己配备新技能和对在线教学的新见解方面的应变能力，以应对遇到的挑战，所采用的策略以及通过对话博客中的批判性反思所汲取的教训。这些方面通过3D虚拟环境中的行动研究为虚拟教师培训和专业发展提供了研究和教学法的新途径。在研究人员的陪同下受到阴影和采访。她的故事体现了在线老师在为自己配备新技能和对在线教学的新见解方面的应变能力，以应对遇到的挑战，所采用的策略以及通过对话博客中的批判性反思所汲取的教训。这些方面通过3D虚拟环境中的行动研究为虚拟教师培训和专业发展提供了研究和教学法的新途径。在研究人员的陪同下受到阴影和采访。她的故事体现了在线老师在为自己配备新技能和对在线教学的新见解方面的应变能力，以应对遇到的挑战，所采用的策略以及通过对话博客中的批判性反思所汲取的教训。这些方面通过3D虚拟环境中的行动研究为虚拟教师培训和专业发展提供了研究和教学法的新途径。