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Lamb, Martin; Wedell, Martin – Language Teaching Research, 2015
Inspiring teaching is the kind of pedagogy that motivates pupils to study autonomously, in their own time, of their own volition beyond the classroom, and may be particularly important for long-term endeavours such as learning a second language. This study aimed to find out the prevalence and nature of inspiring English language teaching in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gao, Xuesong; Xu, Hao – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article reports on an inquiry into a group of English language teachers' professional experiences that interpreted their motivation to teach and their shifting professional commitment with reference to representations and visions that they had and did not have about themselves in rural secondary schools in China's hinterland regions. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Motivation, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
Kang, Yan; Cheng, Xiaotang – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article reports on an in-depth case study of a novice middle school EFL teacher's cognition development during the process of learning to teach in the workplace. Data was collected mainly through classroom observations and interviews. Results indicate that the teacher exhibited a considerable amount of change in her classroom practices, which…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers
Zhang, Fengjuan; Liu, Yongbing – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This study examines the beliefs of Chinese junior high school English teachers about foreign language teaching and influencing contextual factors in a time when curriculum innovation is confronting deep-rooted cultural traditions and complex teaching realities. Drawing upon data collected by means of questionnaires and interviews, this study…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Xu, Yueting – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This article reports on a narrative study of university EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers' research practices and their identity construction as researchers in China. Drawing upon data from narrative frames among 104 teachers and in-depth interviews with four teachers, the study reveals that teachers' increased research engagement, as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Li, Li; Walsh, Steve – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents findings from what we believe to be the first large-scale study of its kind on the use of ICT (information and communications technology) in English language classes in China. Participants are 400 EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from different types of schools in Beijing. The purpose of the study was to examine…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy
Kiely, Richard; Davis, Matt – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This article explores teacher learning in the UK English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) context. We draw on data from a continuing professional development (CPD) initiative to understand how learning is shaped by collaborative discussion with others and by reading from the language classroom research literature. The CPD programme--designed…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Literature, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
Walters, JoDee; Bozkurt, Neval – Language Teaching Research, 2009
Vocabulary notebooks are frequently advocated as a way for students to take control of their vocabulary learning (Fowle, 2002), with the added benefit of improvements in vocabulary learning (Schmitt and Schmitt, 1995; Laufer and Nation, 1999). The study described in this article attempts to lend empirical support to these claims, by investigating…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Writing (Composition), Personal Autonomy, Vocabulary Development
Hayes, David – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This paper explores the motivation and circumstances of a group of Thai teachers in government schools which influenced their becoming teachers of English. Through data derived from in-depth interviewing it seeks to privilege the perceptions of the informants and thus illuminate features of teachers' experience of their educational systems, in…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)