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While this policy process narrates the transformation of professional practice, it does not account for the ways professional identity transformation is a key part of this process. Following James Paul Gee's (2001) suggestion to use "identity as a theoretical lens for education research," this inquiry seeks to understand the ways five Vietnamese TESOL university educators have transformed their professional identities through their engagement with the spaces and practices of what this research analyzes as the 'emerging transnational academic TESOL community' during their overseas study. 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