Self-empowerment in the struggling transition from General English to EAP: Action and reflection of a Chinese teacher

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Chunrong Bao, Xiujuan Chen, Feng (Kevin) Jiang
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Abstract

Faced with the common challenge of professional development from the periphery of academia, EAP teachers in developing economies such as China also grapple with the particular hurdle of transitioning from teaching General English (GE) courses. While previous studies suggest aspects of how the teachers view the difficulties they encounter, the elicited data they use can hardly show the real actions the teachers take to identify problems, plan and evaluate changes. To remedy this oversight, this study adopts an action research design (Burns, 2010; Johnson, 2012) and explores how one teacher adapted to her new tasks in teaching EAP and coped with the transition through her personal actions.

The results show that the teacher was empowered in her struggle with the transition to EAP teaching, and such empowerment enabled her to become an active agent in the changes and implement the accommodating strategies for the EAP curriculum and students. The empowerment was also seen in her efforts not only to accumulate EAP-related experiences and bring forth creative ideas, but also to apply them in her teaching. This action research and its analytical framework help EAP practitioners to reflect on and theorise from what they encounter in everyday classrooms.

在从通用英语到 EAP 的艰难过渡中的自我赋权:一位中国教师的行动与反思
面对来自学术界边缘的专业发展的共同挑战,中国等发展中经济体的英语应用能力教师也在努力应对从教授通用英语(GE)课程转型的特殊障碍。虽然以往的研究表明了教师如何看待他们所遇到的困难,但他们所使用的诱导数据很难显示教师在发现问题、规划和评估变革方面所采取的实际行动。为了弥补这一疏忽,本研究采用了行动研究设计(Burns, 2010; Johnson, 2012),探讨了一位教师如何通过个人行动来适应 EAP 教学的新任务并应对转型。研究结果表明,该教师在向 EAP 教学转型的过程中获得了授权,这种授权使她能够成为变革的积极推动者,并实施针对 EAP 课程和学生的适应性策略。这种赋权还体现在她不仅努力积累与 EAP 相关的经验,提出有创意的想法,而且还将其应用到教学中。这项行动研究及其分析框架有助于英语语言教学从业人员对日常课堂教学中遇到的问题进行反思和理论分析。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
6.60
自引率
13.30%
发文量
81
审稿时长
57 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of English for Academic Purposes provides a forum for the dissemination of information and views which enables practitioners of and researchers in EAP to keep current with developments in their field and to contribute to its continued updating. JEAP publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges in the linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic description of English as it occurs in the contexts of academic study and scholarly exchange itself.
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