A Systematic Review on Language Teacher Agency: A Descriptive Analysis of Research Methods in Empirical Studies Published between 2020-2023

The exploration of teacher agency has gained much empirical support and demonstrated diverse theme. However, language teacher agency is an of recent vintage and there is a lack of consensus on how LTA should be studied. Depending on that reason, the researcher itself believed that there is a need for a comprehensive, systematic analysis of the literature that exists on language teacher agency. This systematic literature review narrows its focus to the way how the dynamics that have effects on LTA are examined in addition to an increased awareness of contextual factors in the research field by focusing of the studies published between the years 2020-2023.