Language teacher expertise research: A theoretical case and research agenda

IF 4 2区 文学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Jason Anderson
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Expertise exists among all communities of educational practitioners at all levels and in all national contexts. By identifying expert practitioners, learning from them and valuing their professional competence, researchers can support, promote and build upon sustainable, embodied, holistic models of quality in ways that have direct relevance for the classroom, the curriculum and wider educational goals. Yet, despite its potential as a field of research, there have been relatively few studies involving expert language teachers to date. After a brief historical background, this article makes the case for language teacher expertise research, noting its high ecological validity, its great practical utility, its ability to bridge the research–practice divide and its potentially positive impact on teaching communities. Key methodological considerations are also discussed, including defining expertise, identifying expert teachers and looking beyond the limits of subject-specific pedagogy to understand the whole practitioner in their sociocultural context. The article then proposes a framework for future teacher expertise research that spans diverse methodologies. Six example research tasks from within this framework are proposed, each justified and exemplified, incorporating suggestions for research design that are intended to encourage both experienced and novice researchers to engage with teacher expertise as a promising domain for future investigation.

语文教师专业知识研究:理论案例和研究议程
专家存在于各个国家各个层面的教育从业者群体中。通过识别专家从业者,向他们学习并重视他们的专业能力,研究人员可以支持、促进和建立可持续的、具体的、全面的质量模式,使其与课堂、课程和更广泛的教育目标直接相关。然而,尽管其作为一个研究领域很有潜力,但迄今为止涉及专业语言教师的研究却相对较少。在简要介绍了历史背景之后,本文提出了语言教师专业知识研究的理由,指出它具有高度的生态有效性、巨大的实用性、弥合研究与实践鸿沟的能力以及对教学界的潜在积极影响。文章还讨论了方法论方面的主要考虑因素,包括专业技能的定义、专家教师的识别以及超越特定学科教学法的局限,从社会文化背景中了解整个从业者。然后,文章为未来的教师专业知识研究提出了一个跨越不同方法论的框架。文章从这一框架中提出了六个研究任务范例,每个范例都有理有据,并结合了研究设计建议,旨在鼓励有经验的研究人员和新手参与教师专业知识研究,将其作为未来研究的一个大有可为的领域。
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Language Teaching
Language Teaching Multiple-
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7.10
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2.80%
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46
期刊介绍: Language Teaching is the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics, second and foreign languages and countries, and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses. The journal also includes regional surveys of outstanding doctoral dissertations, topic-based research timelines, theme-based research agendas, recent plenary conference speeches, and research-in-progress reports. A thorough peer-reviewing procedure applies to both the commissioned and the unsolicited articles.
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