This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. It makes a substantial contribution to research on educational change by offering a longitudinal observation of the facts and voices in EFL settings in China; as such, the book offers a valuable resource for scholars, teacher educators, teachers, and others interested in initiating, managing and evaluating innovations in EFL classrooms.
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes.
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Acknowledgments.- Abstract.- List of Abbreviations.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework of the Study.- Chapter 3 Research Design.- Chapter 4 Changes of Teacher Cognition within Curriculum Innovation.- Chapter 5 The Changes of Teacher and Student Behaviors in Project Classrooms.- Chapter 6 Teacher Cognition and Practices: Project vs. Non-project and Consistency vs. Inconsistency.- Chapter 7 Factors Influencing the Implementation of the Danyang Project.- Chapter 8 Conclusion.- Appendix 1 The English classroom teaching evaluation form used for unfocused classroom observation.- Appendix 2 A selected teaching journal with teacher educators’ feedback.- Appendix 3 A selected action research report.- Appendix 4 A classroom observation scheme used for focused classroom observation.- Appendix 5 A selected sub-project agenda under group review.- Appendix 6 A selected excerpt of field notes.- Appendix 7 The codebook for coding qualitative data.- Appendix 8 A selected interview transcript with open coding.- Appendix 9 A coded classroom transcript.- Appendix 10 A public letter Marian sent to parents.- Appendix 11 A trial classroom observation scheme formulated by the office of Academic Affairs (Jiaowu Chu) at HES.
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. It makes a substantial contribution to research on educational change by offering a longitudinal observation of the facts and voices in EFL settings in China; as such, the book offers a valuable resource for scholars, teacher educators, teachers, and others interested in initiating, managing and evaluating innovations in EFL classrooms.
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Delineates changes in teachers’ cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project; Investigates factors influencing the implementation of curriculum innovation; Provides guiding principles for researchers and practitioners conducting university-school collaborative innovation projects Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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ISBN
9789811072383
Publisert
2017-12-14
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Springer Verlag, Singapore
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235 mm
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155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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