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Bimali Indrarathne – ELT Journal, 2025
Whether or not ELT practitioners have access to research findings, their understanding of them and the perceived relevance to their own contexts are important debates in the language education field. This paper discusses an initiative that attempted to disseminate research findings relating to teaching/learning grammar to a group of ELT teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Pawel Scheffler; Karolina Baranowska; Shawn Loewen – ELT Journal, 2025
The current study investigated factors that potentially influenced the pedagogic practices of 132 EFL teachers from 28 secondary schools in a large city in Poland. The teachers completed a questionnaire about the factors that impacted their teaching practices. The primary influences on teaching practices turned out to be the course textbook and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
Dr Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah's article, "The New Territory of Educational Research in TESOL/TEFL: What Novice Researchers Should Know", provides a comprehensive guide for novice researchers in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It emphasises the importance of research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Flynn, Naomi – Teacher Development, 2019
This article draws on the notion of communal constructivism to explore its potential to frame and facilitate the development of evidence-informed practice. The explicit aspiration to nurture a research-informed workforce is prominent in discourse across policy makers, educational researchers and teacher professional groups in England; however,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Constructivism (Learning), Research Utilization, Theory Practice Relationship
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Abbot, Marilyn L.; Lee, Kent K.; Rossiter, Marian J. – TESL Canada Journal, 2018
In this article, we describe and evaluate a research utilization initiative designed to bridge the teaching English as a second language (TESL) research-practice gap by fostering the formation of and supporting professional learning communities (PLCs) in adult ESL instructional contexts. We review literature on teachers' professional reading,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tarrayo, Veronico N.; Hernandez, Philippe Jose S.; Claustro, Judith Ma. Angelica S. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Given the paucity of studies regarding research practices of teachers, particularly English language teaching (ELT) practitioners in the ASEAN region and in the Philippines, this study explores the research practices of English language teachers in the Philippines. Using purposive-convenience sampling, a total of 49 teachers of English from a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers