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Fatoon Simbawa; Hussein Assalahi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
This study aimed to explore and document language teachers' beliefs and perceptions of journal writing as a tool for improving their practice and enhancing their professional growth. The significance of reflective journals in improving professional practice has been widely reported in pre-service teacher education research. However, research on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Sahakyan, Taguhi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Member checking is one of the key instruments ensuring the quality of qualitative research which is commonly associated with participants' approval of data accuracy. Considering multiple drawbacks of the traditional member-checking methods, this article presents an alternative technique--diagrammatic elicitation. I illustrate how this approach was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Nejadghanbar, Hassan – TESOL Journal, 2021
This study explored the effects of teachers' individual reflection (IR) and group reflection (GR) on critical incidents (CIs). A group of preservice teachers (N = 7) were presented with real instances of CIs to consider during 12 teacher training sessions. In each session, the trainees read the first part of a CI, describing what happened, when it…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
Pan, Xiaoquan; Gan, Zhengdong – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This study explored how 26 Chinese EFL teachers perceived community-based, technology-supported professional development practices. The methods of data collection in this study blend quantitative and qualitative techniques: (1) questionnaire survey of teachers' satisfaction about community-based technology-supported professional development…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Lin, Shu-Wen – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2020
This self-study research aims to report and reflect on the practitioner-researcher's experience as an English teacher in a Japanese university. The study also aims to explore the dynamics of teacher identity construction. The theoretical perspective of this study is based on global Englishes and social constructivist theories, which discuss…
Descriptors: Asians, Professional Identity, Foreign Nationals, Second Language Learning
Qi, Grace Yue; Wang, Yuping – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This study explores the process of Community of Practice (CoP) building for language teachers' professional development through the support of a WeChat group. WeChat is an instant messenger app that provides a multimodal platform for one-on-one and group interactions through text, audio and video. In order to support the implementation of flipped…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups, Communities of Practice
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
Jochum, Christopher J.; Rawlings, Jared R.; Tejada, Ana María – Dimension, 2015
The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand how four in-service Spanish teachers interpreted their participation in a summer study abroad program and how the experience contributed to their ongoing professional development and language proficiency. Using a multiple case design (Simons, 2009; Stake, 2005; Yin, 2009), the researchers…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Study Abroad, Faculty Development, Language Teachers
Nyman, Tarja – Teacher Development, 2014
Focusing on the working community, this article concentrates on the newly qualified foreign language teachers' (NQT) experiences and on factors that promoted or prevented the development of professional expertise at the outset of their working life. It draws on a qualitative longitudinal study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Capitelli, Sarah – Studying Teacher Education, 2015
This article looks closely at a teacher inquiry group and the dilemmas that emerged during the first year of facilitating the group. The author encountered a number of unforeseen dilemmas that challenged previous understanding of teacher inquiry, its processes, and purposes. The author moved from viewing the process of facilitation of teacher…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Barriers, Facilitators (Individuals)
Liu, Mei-hui – Computers & Education, 2012
This study investigated the application of an online videocase discussion community into fostering preservice and inservice EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' professional development in Taiwan. This investigation further revealed the nature and development of discussion discourse and the participating teachers' perceptions of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers

Farrell, Thomas S. C. – Journal of Education for Teaching, 2001
Examined the reflections of a non-native English speaker who taught English as a foreign language in Korea, discussing her preferred modes of reflection during group meetings, individual meetings, and journal writing and describing her level of reflection in each activity (descriptive or critical). Overall, she clearly preferred group discussion…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, English (Second Language), Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Bray, Eric; Harsch, Kenton – 1996
Two teachers' experience with using reflective journals to help both teachers and students reflect on the teaching and learning processes is described. The technique was implemented in English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) classes in a Japanese university. Specific guidelines were established for students, and the journal format was a worksheet…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Students
Brock, Mark N.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated the benefits to three practicing teachers of the experience of being observed by preservice teacher trainees. Information was drawn from teacher journal entries concerning this experience, observations by the student teachers, and conversation among teachers and between teachers and preservice observers. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, English for Academic Purposes, English for Special Purposes, English (Second Language)

Borich, Jeanette – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 2003
This unit was created and first taught by the author in the children's demonstration class that was part of the 1995 Teacher Educator Partnership Institute sponsored by the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The mission of the NFLRC is to improve student learning of foreign languages in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Units of Study, Second Language Learning, Thematic Approach
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