ERIC Number: EJ1148034
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 22
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Exploring English Teachers' Perceptions about Peer-Coaching as a Professional Development Activity of Knowledge Construction
Castañeda-Londoño, Adriana
HOW, v24 n2 p80-101 Jul-Dec 2017
Teachers' knowledge and how they construct it is an area that deserves attention when it comes to producing fruitful professional development practices. This small-scale action research aims at identifying the perceptions of three teachers in a private language center about peer-coaching and their actual construction of knowledge in a peer-coaching activity. Data were collected through two narratives and the transcription of recorded conversations among participants after the observation of their classes. The results suggest that before peer-coaching teachers held three types of perceptions towards observation and feedback: a cautious approach, an identity tension approach, and a celebratory approach. After peer-coaching one sees that two perceptions emerged: observation and feedback entail, on the one hand, high anxiety about teachers' self-image; and on the other, observation and feedback show a deep sense of their selves.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Peer Teaching, Observation, Feedback (Response), Anxiety, Self Concept, Qualitative Research, Pretests Posttests, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Action Research, Surveys
ASOCOPI, the Colombian Association of Teachers of English. Cra 27 A #53-06, oficina 405, Bogota, Colombia. +57-2115018; Fax: +57-2115018. e-mail: asocopicolombia@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Tests/Questionnaires; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colombia (Bogota)
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