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Teaching Reading and Teacher Beliefs: A Sociocultural Perspective

Teaching Reading and Teacher Beliefs: A Sociocultural Perspective

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Series: English Language Education, Book 20

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 3030471691
ISBN13: 9783030471699
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 189
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores language teacher beliefs in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading instruction in the context of Chinese university English instructors. Since the 1990s, there has been a renewed interest on teacher beliefs in the domain of language teacher cognition. However, most studies in this area aim at investigating the relationship between particular aspects of teacher beliefs and classroom practices, largely ignoring the complexity of teacher beliefs. This study explores the issue from an alternative perspective by conceptualizing teacher beliefs as a complex, dynamic and multi-faceted system. By adopting five rounds of interview and four classroom observations, the year-long study reveals seven key features of the belief system shared among six participants. It calls for the holistic, complex and insider view to examine teacher beliefs in relation to the sociocultural and historical contexts where the teachers work and live.

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