In this paper I present results of a research with students under training supervision to teach extra classes to other students who have difficulty in following the regular English subjects in the beginning of their Major in Languages. Based on a theory of discourse informed by psychoanalytical propositions, I investigate moments of identification within their teaching experience. In this case, identities are conceived as being in constant construction, since subjectivity is alienated to language and determined by historical-cultural conditionings. The analyses indicate representations of the good student, the good teacher, their notion of knowing a language, and their treatment of errors. I end the paper proposing that the process of learning and teaching takes place within a process of identification and remembering that the two things happen by chance when the desire to teach meets the desire to learn.
Applied linguistics; identitary representations; Discourse Analysis; Psychoanalysis