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Jennifer Alford – Curriculum Journal, 2024
Teachers of English as an Additional Language learners in high schools have long navigated the seemingly intransigent deficit thinking about their learners' capacity to engage fully with the intended or required curriculum. These learners are frequently constructed as the problem, as if the curriculum exists in a vacuum. This gives rise to the…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Banegas, Darío Luis – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article describes part of a larger action research study carried out in 2018 with secondary school learners and teachers of English in southern Argentina. The study was guided by two aims: (1) improving English language learner motivation, and (2) transforming the English as a foreign language (EFL) curriculum through teacher and learner…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Huizinga, Tjark; Handelzalts, Adam; Nieveen, Nienke; Voogt, Joke – Curriculum Journal, 2015
Supporting Teacher Design Teams (TDTs) during local curriculum development efforts is essential. To be able to provide high-quality support, insights are needed about how TDTs carry out design activities and how support is valued by the members of TDTs and how it affects their design expertise. In this study, the design and support processes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Teamwork, Expertise
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Rahimi, Mehrak; Alavi, Jalil – Curriculum Journal, 2017
The current study aimed to investigate the role of teaching experience in language teachers' perceptions of a top-down curriculum change. One hundred twenty-seven language teachers who have been experiencing the change for three years participated in the study. Their perceptions of change were quantitatively assessed by perceptions of change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Power, Tom; Shaheen, Robina; Solly, Mike; Woodward, Clare; Burton, Sonia – Curriculum Journal, 2012
In the Least Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs), School Based Teacher Development (SBTD) is sometimes advocated as a potential mechanism for improving the classroom practices experienced by millions of children in a complete school system, as quickly as possible. Robust evidence is required for approaches to be implemented with some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Improvement
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Shawer, Saad – Curriculum Journal, 2010
This qualitative study examines the influence of teacher conceptualisations of communicative language teaching on their actual classroom practice and student cognitive and affective change. The qualitative paradigm underpinned this research at the levels of ontology (multiple teacher realities), epistemology (interaction with, rather than…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)