Inquiry and Research Skills for Language Teachers

This book equips pre-service language teachers with research and inquiry skills which they can use in the course of their classroom teaching. Research is presented not as an additional burden in teachers' busy lives but as an integrated tool for satisfying their curiosity, developing an investigative stance, and strengthening the links between theory and practice. Over the course of the book, the authors introduce and encourage the use of pedagogically exploitable pedagogic-research activities (PEPRAs) to develop a deeper understanding of pedagogic issues in an engaging, supportive, and collaborative way. This book will be of interest to students and instructors on TESOL and related courses, as well as practitioners working in the teacher training sector.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Research.- Chapter 2: Exploring and Developing Puzzles.- Chapter 3: Designing Pedagogically Exploitable Pedagogic-Research Activities (PEPRAs).- Chapter 4: Generating the Pieces of the Puzzle.- Chapter 5: Putting the Pieces Together.- Chapter 6: Understanding the Puzzle and the Emerging Picture.- Chapter 7: Developing Critical Reflection Practices via Reflective Writing for Pre-service Language Teachers.- Chapter 8: Educational Research Course Designs Across the World.

About the author

Kenan Dikilitaş is a teacher educator and researcher working in the Higher Education Pedagogy Department of the University of Stavanger, Norway.
Ali Bostancıoğlu is an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) tutor and researcher working in the School of Foreign Languages of Iskenderun Technical University, Turkey.

Product details

• Authors: Ali Bostanc¿o¿lu, Ali Bostancioglu, Ali Bostancıoğlu, Kenan Dikilita¿, Kenan Dikilitas, Kenan Dikilitaş
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2019
• EAN: 9783030211363
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3021136-3
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 180 p. 21 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Pädagogik, B, Education, Linguistics, Social Sciences, Language Education, Research Methods in Education, Education—Research, Linguistics—Methodology, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Language teaching & learning, Language and languages—Study and teaching, Language Teaching