Becoming an English Teacher: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry

This paper documents a fragment of story in my life that plays significant role shaping identity as an English teacher and influencing me deciding to become career choice. study's research question is 'how why did I decide teacher?'. study was conducted using the "narrative inquiry" method underthe qualitative paradigm. The carried out by describing individual's life, collecting retelling parts his relevant topic. In this study, fragments are retold writer's own experience. shows person's journey can start long before he/she enters education institution. A decision come internally from external factors, such influence 'significant others', socio-cultural economic political factors. All these factors intertwined or final on whether choose not.