Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

2018-08-07
Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

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  • Author: Kenan Dikilitaş
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9783319844794
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers. Although acknowledging that the research process is not always linear, the authors proceed according to a clear progression which teachers can adapt to their needs. They provide examples, narratives, questions and tasks, and give multiple ideas for establishing research questions, choosing appropriate methodologies, adapting to existing contexts, and collecting data. They also suggest possible instruments, and give clear instructions for carrying out the most common kinds of statistical procedures, and ideas for presenting, discussing, and writing up research findings. In spite of its practical bias, the book is theoretically and ethically rigorous, and contains an extensive glossary for quick and easy reference. It will appeal to trainee teachers, in-service teachers wanting to expand their own professional horizons or working for a higher qualification, and is an invaluable reference for teacher-educators and scholars.

Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

2017-03-27
Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research

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  • Author: Kenan Dikilitaş
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319507397
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers. Although acknowledging that the research process is not always linear, the authors proceed according to a clear progression which teachers can adapt to their needs. They provide examples, narratives, questions and tasks, and give multiple ideas for establishing research questions, choosing appropriate methodologies, adapting to existing contexts, and collecting data. They also suggest possible instruments, and give clear instructions for carrying out the most common kinds of statistical procedures, and ideas for presenting, discussing, and writing up research findings. In spite of its practical bias, the book is theoretically and ethically rigorous, and contains an extensive glossary for quick and easy reference. It will appeal to trainee teachers, in-service teachers wanting to expand their own professional horizons or working for a higher qualification, and is an invaluable reference for teacher-educators and scholars.

Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice

2018-06-26
Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice

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  • Author: Kenan Dikilitaş
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319757350
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

This edited collection explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) by language teachers in classrooms. Written by practitioners, the chapters showcase unique examples of each principle of EP, with topics ranging from mentoring practitioner researchers, to teaching and learning in EAP, and investigating curriculum development in language teaching programs. The book provides example EP studies and gives voice to practitioners’ experiences of the challenges they experienced as well as the benefits. Examples include tackling intercultural communication in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms; pedagogy and curriculum design in language teaching; explorations of continuing professional development in language education. In doing so, it offers tools that can be transferred to other classroom contexts and used to aid teacher development. The concluding chapter highlights critical aspects of Exploratory Practice which emerge in the studies and examines how practitioners advanced their understandings. This book will appeal to those working in Applied Linguistics, TESOL research, as well as language teachers and teacher educators.

Lessons from Good Language Teachers

2020-04-30
Lessons from Good Language Teachers

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  • Author: Carol Griffiths
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108800351
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

What makes a good language teacher? This up-to-date, practical book addresses that question from a 'human' perspective, recognising that teachers are not just machines, but have feelings, needs and identities of their own. As the twenty-two topics of the chapters in this volume clearly indicate, language teachers are complex individuals, who are expected to have a range of personal qualities, to be able to satisfy the needs of their students and to have the knowledge and skills to provide instruction in a range of language areas. Not only that, but all of these requirements are constantly changing. The authors present new insights from the real teaching environment that will be an invaluable help to language teachers at all stages of professional development.

Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education

2024-06-28
Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education

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  • Author: Manuel Jiménez Raya
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1040048269
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 168

This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education. Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses theory and practice and gives a holistic view of the changing landscape of language teacher education, accounting for the transformative power of educational practices that help teachers think and act in informed, context-specific, and learner-centred ways. It also demonstrates the importance of autonomy in language teacher education contexts, specifically to foster teachers’ professional learning, identity, and agency, as well as in assessing and reshaping teacher education programmes. This book will be particularly useful to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and teacher education, modern foreign languages, and teaching and learning language research more broadly. Curriculum designers and language teacher education programme directors may also find the volume of use.

Language Teacher Motivation, Autonomy and Development in East Asia

2022-05-16
Language Teacher Motivation, Autonomy and Development in East Asia

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  • Author: Yuzo Kimura
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030934675
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229

This volume highlights unique features of L2 teachers’ motivation, autonomy and career development in Far East counties (including Japan, South Korea and China), using diverse methodological research approaches incorporating both quantitative and qualitative paradigms. While much of current research focuses on students’ psychology, this volume looks into EFL teachers’ motivation and autonomy. Both discussions of theoretical issues of teacher motivation and autonomy and practical, classroom-based investigations are included and written to appeal to researchers, as well as applied teacher audiences. The theoretical chapters give readers a solid grounding in the issues of interest to the field. The practical chapters offer cutting edge insights and can also serve as templates on which postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers can base future studies. This helps the book to offer a dual service to the research community, addressing both issues of theorization of research and the practice of conducting research investigations.

Lessons from Good Language Teachers

2020-04-30
Lessons from Good Language Teachers

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  • Author: Carol Griffiths
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108489265
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

Explains how good language teachers work, drawing on teacher training theory as well as many examples and case studies.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education

2019-07-03
The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education

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  • Author: Steve Walsh
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317335201
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 708

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education. With an overview of historical issues, theoretical frameworks and current debates, this handbook provides unique insights into a range of teacher education contexts, focusing on key issues relating to teacher and learner priorities, language and communication, current practices, reflective practice, and research. Key features include: a cross-section of current theories, practices and issues, providing readers with a resource which can be used in a variety of contexts; the use of data, transcripts and tasks to highlight and illustrate a range of practices, including examples of ‘best practice’; ‘snapshots’ of ELTE from a number of contexts taken from all around the world; and examples of current technological advances, contemporary thinking on reflective practice, and insights gained from recent research. This wide-ranging and international collection of chapters has been written by leading experts in the field. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education is sure to be core reading for students, researchers and educators in applied linguistics, TESOL and language education.

Inquiry and Research Skills for Language Teachers

2019-10-31
Inquiry and Research Skills for Language Teachers

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  • Author: Kenan Dikilitaş
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030211371
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

This book equips pre-service language teachers with research and inquiry skills which they can use in the course of their classroom teaching. Research is presented not as an additional burden in teachers’ busy lives but as an integrated tool for satisfying their curiosity, developing an investigative stance, and strengthening the links between theory and practice. Over the course of the book, the authors introduce and encourage the use of pedagogically exploitable pedagogic-research activities (PEPRAs) to develop a deeper understanding of pedagogic issues in an engaging, supportive, and collaborative way. This book will be of interest to students and instructors on TESOL and related courses, as well as practitioners working in the teacher training sector.

Sustaining Action Research

2022-03-30
Sustaining Action Research

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  • Author: Anne Burns
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 042956029X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

This book is a practical guide for English language teachers and teacher educators seeking to carry out and promote teacher action research within their institutional context. Based on contemporary theory and a reflexive and social approach to teacher professional development and learning, it offers readers structured methodologies and concepts, wide-ranging hands-on activity sets, and focused suggestions for appropriate and sustainable ways to implement action research across an institution. Experts Anne Burns, Emily Edwards and Neville John Ellis close the book by presenting ideas for conducting teacher research through reflective practice, exploratory practice and action research.