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 …

This paper reviews 42 empirical studies on tertiary educators' professional agency,
identifying five key practices: pedagogical innovation, research engagement, professional …

This study draws on an ecological perspective on teacher agency to examine the role of the
situated learning CALL environment in developing EFL student-teachers' agency. The data …

Whilst the extant literature on the publish-or-perish culture in the West is plentiful, there
remains surprisingly little scholarship exploring the ways managerialist policies have …

Social network analysis (SNA) has recently drawn increasing scholarly attention in applied
linguistics research in response to the social turn in the field. In this review, we analyze and …

This study draws on the ecological perspective of teacher agency to examine the
manifestation of English teachers' agency toward the ongoing curriculum reform in China …

Relational agency is pivotal for understanding how language teachers seek and utilize
relational resources in different contexts and grow to be agents of change amid various …

As part of the continued effort to advocate multilingual education, China has recently
included German, French, and Spanish as subjects in secondary education. Secondary …

With a national research-oriented atmosphere in tertiary institutions, many Chinese EFL
teachers rise to the challenge by working collaboratively in professional communities …

Teacher agency is imperative for the process of implementing curriculum reforms and
educational policies (Lasky, 2005; Pyhältö et al., 2012; Hamid and Nguyen, 2016; Tao and …