Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research is an authoritative and innovative treatment of language teacher action research (LTAR) as a growing research field.
Edited by two global thought leaders in LTAR, it features 34 original thematic contributions from a global range of experts at the cutting edge of the field, providing a comprehensive survey not found in any other single publication. Initiatives across the world are demonstrating the value of LTAR, which has been shown to provide language teachers with strong, exciting, and influential opportunities for learning, and gaining a feeling of empowerment. This groundbreaking Handbook theorises these premises from multiple perspectives in specific areas of language teacher education and curates a broad range of original content that integrates the practical and theoretical knowledge that has emerged over the years since LTAR began to develop.
This volume is a groundbreaking guide for researchers of language teaching, as well as practitioners and educators that want to harness the potential of LTAR in both theory and practice.
Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1. Language Teacher Action Research: An Introduction
Anne Burns and Kenan Dikilitaş
Part I: Professional Impact
2. Research Knowledge and Skills
Joseph Siegel
3. Striving for Positive Change in Second Language Education: A Consideration of Critical Action Research
Gregory Hadley
4. Creativity in Language Teacher Action Research
Darío Luis Banegas and Luis S. Villacañas de Castro
5. The Impact of Practitioner Research: What Teachers and Students Gain from Doing Research
Judith Hanks
6. Publishing Action Research by Teachers of English
Melba Libia Cárdenas
7. Developing Professional Ethics for Action Research
Roger Barnard
Part II: Pedagogical Impact
8. Action Research for Teaching Grammar
Melissa Reed and Phil Chappell
9. Student Engagement through Action Research
Kenan Dikilitaş
10. Digital Data-led Reflections on Language Classroom Interaction: A Collaborative Action Research Study
Olcay Sert and Carolina Jonsson
11. Researching Mobile Technologies in Language Teaching
Nicky Hockly
12. Online Learning/Hybrid Learning and Action Research
John I. Liontas
13. Using Corpus Approaches in Language Teacher Action Research
Fiona Farr
14. Action Research and Language Assessment
Frank Giraldo and Daniel Murcia Quintero
Part III: Personal Impact
15. Action Research and Language Teacher Agency
Vahid Bahrami and Xuesong (Andy) Gao
16. Action Research as an Avenue for Exploring Teacher Wellbeing
Tammy Gregersen
17. Teacher and Learner Autonomy through Action Research
Rhian Webb and Simon Mumford
18. Action Research into Learner and Teacher Motivation
Richard J Sampson and Richard S Pinner
19. The Centrality of Reflection in Action Research: A Neglected Issue
Le Van Canh
20. Language Teacher Identity and Action Research: Insights and Implications
Gary Barkhuizen
21. Teacher Emotional Development and Action Research
Stephanie King and Christina Gkonou
22. Building Language Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for and through Action Research
Mark Wyatt
23. Action Research and Language Teacher Cognition: Reflexive, Intentional, Praxical
Anne Feryok
Part IV: Educational Impact
24. Looking From the Outside In - Action Research in Initial Language Teacher Education
Malba Barahona and Stephen Darwin
25. In-Service Teacher Education and Action Research
Anne Burns
26. Institutional Development through Action Research
Emily Edwards and Neville John Ellis
27. Unpacking the Roles of Action Research Facilitators
Rui Yuan, Kailun Wang, and Hong Zhang
28. Exploring the Interface between Difficult Circumstances and Action Research in English Language Teaching
Amol Padwad
29. Action Research for Social Justice in Language Education
Melina Porto
Part V: Teacher Voices
30. The Transformative Power of Action Research on A Teacher's Practices, Identity, and Career
Peter Brereton
31. My Story Matters: Engaging in Action Research Inquiries in Poland and The United States
Luis Javier Pentón Herrera
32. Fantastic Shining Consequences of Practicing Action Research in a Public-School EFL Classroom
Roxana Carolina Perca Chagua
33. From Action Research To Higher Degree Research: An Ecological Perspective
Bianka Malecka
34. Looking to the Future in Language Teacher Action Research
Anne Burns and Kenan Dikilitaş
Index
