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Autonomy, Agency, and Identity in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

Author : (Mark) Feng Teng

Publisher : Springer

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 26,89 MB

Release : 2018-06-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9811307288

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Book Description

This book discusses the importance of autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, all of which are central themes in the educational domain. By linking theory with practice to appeal to researchers as well as classroom practitioners, it provides an overview of the theoretical constructs of autonomy, agency, and identity along with empirical studies that explore these constructs through life stories as told by English teachers and students. Key features include: • New ideas to inspire professionals involved in foreign language education. • Up-to-date information to showcase for English language educators how autonomy, agency, and identity can be conceptualized across various institutional, sociocultural, and political contexts.• A concise yet comprehensive review of the theoretical and practical issues characterizing English foreign language education today.



Identity, Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning

Author : Garold Murray

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 22,75 MB

Release : 2011-04-14

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847694985

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In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also addresses practice in classroom, self-access, and distance education contexts, considering topics such as teachers’ views on motivation, plurilingual learning, sustaining motivation in distance education, pop culture and gaming, study abroad, and the role of agency and identity in the motivation of pre-service teachers. The book concludes with a discussion of how an approach which sees identity, motivation, and autonomy as interrelated constructs has the potential to inform theory, practice and future research directions in the field of language teaching and learning.





Teacher Agency

Author : Mark Priestley

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 30,47 MB

Release : 2015-10-22

Category : Education

ISBN : 1472525876

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Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson explore empirical findings from the 'Teacher Agency and Curriculum Change' project, funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Drawing together this research with the authors' international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency addresses theoretical and practical issues of international significance. The authors illustrate how teacher agency should be understood not only in terms of individual capacity of teachers, but also in respect of the cultures and structures of schooling.



Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research

Author : Gary Barkhuizen

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 287 pages

File Size : 19,45 MB

Release : 2016-11-10

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 131728609X

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Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and research work. Authors weave discussions of LTI into their own research biographies, employing a personal reflective style. This book also looks to future directions in LTI research, with suggestions for research topics and methodological approaches. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in language teacher identity as well as language teaching and research more generally.



Language Teacher Agency

Author : Jian Tao

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 115 pages

File Size : 49,62 MB

Release : 2021-11-18

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108912575

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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 shape the way we approach teacher agency. The authors then continue with the 'why' question, and elaborate on the reasons that language teacher agency matters, based on a discussion of the varied purposes of teacher agency at multiple levels. They also acknowledge that teacher agency does not operate alone, and discuss how it intersects with such concepts as teacher identity, emotion, belief and knowledge. Based on this, they identify ways to promote teacher agency through making changes to contexts and/or actors. They then introduce the concept of collective agency and propose a multi-layered model based on an illustrative study. The Element ends with a call for a trans-perspective on understanding language teacher agency so as to facilitate the professional development of language teachers.



First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning

Author : Miles Turnbull

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 24,23 MB

Release : 2009-08-24

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847697682

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This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics, as well as in a variety of languages, countries, and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.



Strategic Language Learning

Author : Xuesong (Andy) Gao

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 24,5 MB

Release : 2010-02-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1847693911

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This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates’ language learning experiences in an English medium university in a multilingual setting with a focus on their strategic language learning efforts. This book examines the issue as to what extent language learners’ strategic learning efforts depend on their ‘choice’, if ‘the element of choice’ is the defining characteristic of language learners’ strategic learning behaviour. The inquiry, using a qualitative and ethnographic research approach, reveals dynamic interaction between learners’ agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants’ strategic learning process. Such understanding informs pedagogical efforts to foster individual learners’ capacity for strategic learning and their capacities in opening up and sustaining a social learning space for exercising their strategic learning capacity or utilizing their strategic learning knowledge.



Lessons from Good Language Teachers

Author : Carol Griffiths

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 50,96 MB

Release : 2020-04-30

Category : Education

ISBN : 1108489265

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Explains how good language teachers work, drawing on teacher training theory as well as many examples and case studies.



Learner and Teacher Autonomy

Author : Terry Lamb

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 50,66 MB

Release : 2008-02-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027291691

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This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education. Drawing on the work of eminent researchers of language learning and teaching, it explores at both conceptual and practical levels issues related to current pedagogical developments in a wide range of contexts. Global shifts have led to an increase in autonomous and independent learning both in policy and practice (including self-access and distance learning). The book’s scope and focus will therefore be beneficial to language teachers as well as to students and researchers in applied linguistics and those involved in pre- and in-service teacher education. The book concludes with an overview of the state of research in this field, focusing on the (inter)relationships between the concepts of learner and teacher autonomy.