Full Description
This captivating book chronicles the three-year action research journey of a literacy teacher educator, showcasing the development, refinement, and progress of his teaching practices. Central to the book is a comprehensive examination of various literacy teaching strategies, including the genre-process approach, the integration of reading and writing, and the big idea framework. Additionally, this book delves into the process of literacy teacher development, examining the efficacy of different practical initiatives, such as the approach of lesson study and the explicit teaching of teacher reflection. The book further features the critical and rigorous self-evaluation that the author conducts across both cognitive and socio-affective realms through action research, highlighting its power for language teacher educators' continuing professional development. Equipping the reader with conceptual insights and practical tools to enhance teaching strategies and student engagement, it is essential reading for literacy teachers and teacher educators in L2 contexts.
Contents
1. The journey of a longitudinal action research project: an overview; 2. Unraveling the complexities of literacy and its teaching; 3. Unveiling the diversity of literacy teacher education; 4. Year one: promoting theory-practice integration and reflective learning through lesson study; 5. Year two: fostering reading-writing synthesis based on the big idea framework; 6. Year three: enhancing the depth of big ideas-based literacy instruction facilitated by diverse mediational means; 7. What does the three-year AR tell us? References; Index.
