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Yuan, Rui; Yang, Min – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
This qualitative multi-case study explores a group of university-based language teacher educators' boundary crossing experiences in Hong Kong. Informed by a conceptual framework on boundary crossing and drawing on data from in-depth interviews and field observations, the findings reveal the opportunities and challenges embedded in teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Language Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Yuan, Rui; Zhang, Jia; Yu, Shulin – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Although research on teacher collaboration has proliferated in the last few decades, scant attention has been paid to the development of teacher collaboration in school contexts. Informed by the perspective of complexity theory, this study investigates the complex process of teacher collaboration through qualitative interviews in an English…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, School Effectiveness
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Russell, Felice Atesoglu – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
As a field, we have a limited understanding and a dearth of empirical research concerning the role of high school instructional coaches focused on English learners (ELs). This paper examines one EL facilitator's work as an instructional coach and resource for supporting mainstream content teachers as they learn to meet the needs of adolescent ELs…
Descriptors: Role, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chien, Chin-Wen – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
Though it is well known that pre-service teachers' field experiences are recognized as key to enhancing teaching practice, Taiwanese pre-service teachers who take "Teaching Methods and Materials" in elementary school's seven areas often complain that they lack field experience. They do not have the opportunity to experience teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Mentors, Experienced Teachers
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Cross, Russell – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
The current educational context in many English speaking countries is one where literacy is understood to be essentially monolingual in orientation; that is, an understanding of literacy around a single common language, with the emphasis on identifying universal, normative "standards" and "benchmarks", such as the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Literacy Education, Teacher Characteristics, Federal Legislation
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Assaf, Lori Czop – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
This case study explores the professional identity of one reading specialist, Marsha, who struggled with testing pressures at her urban elementary school in the U.S. It offers an in-depth look at how Marsha's instructional decisions and practices in a pull-out reading program aimed at helping English Language Learners (ELL) shifted when she was…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Reading Teachers