Exploratory Practice in Language Teaching: Puzzling About Principles and Practices

✍ Scribed by Judith Hanks (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book tracks the development of Exploratory Practice since the early 1990s as an original form of practitioner research in the field of English language teaching. Drawing on case studies, vignettes and narratives from teachers and learners around the world as they experienced Exploratory Practice in their different contexts, Hanks examines the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the Exploratory Practice framework and asks what the principles really mean in practice. For language professionals considering investigating their classrooms and their teaching/learning practices rigorously and thoughtfully, this book breaks new ground, arguing for a fresh perspective: (exploratory) practice-as-research. Judith Hanks is Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Leeds, UK. Her work bridges specialist areas in language teacher education, intercultural communication, TESOL and EAP.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
General Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Introduction to Part One....Pages 23-31
From Research to Practitioner Research: Setting Exploratory Practice in Context....Pages 33-56
Perspectives on the ‘Family’ of Practitioner Research....Pages 57-80
The Evolution of the Exploratory Practice Framework....Pages 81-106
Puzzles, Puzzling, and Puzzlement....Pages 107-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Introduction to Part 2....Pages 133-141
Integrating Research and Pedagogy....Pages 143-166
Collegial Working....Pages 167-189
Continuing Personal and Professional Development....Pages 191-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Introduction to Part 3....Pages 217-229
Puzzles, Puzzling, and Trust....Pages 231-263
PEPAs, Culture, and Identity....Pages 265-290
Conclusions....Pages 291-315
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Exploratory Practice Voices....Pages 319-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-384

✦ Subjects

Language Teaching;English;Language Education