The teaching of foreign languages to young learners is growing in popularity around the
world. Research in this field, particularly of English as a second/foreign language education …

Within the field of education, reflective practice has become a very popular concept within
teacher education and development programs. The general consensus is that teachers who …

This Element aims to elucidate the concept of language teacher agency by exploring
the'what'question, offering major conceptualisations of agency and explaining how they …

Methods An advisory e-user group comprising ministry personnel, teacher educators,
educational researchers, NGOs, foundations and other development partners offered advice …

Based on original research, this book explores the fundamental relationship between
research and practice in English language teaching. Teacher Research in Language …

In this comprehensive and detailed analysis of recent research on encouraging reflective
practices in TESOL, Farrell demonstrates how this practice has been embraced within …

In Teacher Cognition and Language Education (Borg, 2006) I noted the rapid growth that
had occurred since the mid-1990s in the study of language teacher cognition and that trend …

This paper reports on a study that adopted a mixed method research design to explore the
impact of action research on English language teacher candidates' self-efficacy beliefs in a …

This article reports on a narrative study of university EFL (English as a foreign language)
teachers' research practices and their identity construction as researchers in China. Drawing …

This mixed methods study adds to a growing international literature on the nature of
language teachers' engagement with and in research by examining such engagement in the …