Keeping pace with the continuous changes and innovations in the field of English language teaching is considered to be a necessity for the quality of teachers' teaching. There are numerous approaches to teacher development, among which self-initiated development stands as one of the noticeable trends. Although teacher development is crucial for the quality of education, it appears that there ar...

Purpose This paper presents the results of my learning using expertise in teacher-research mentoring to address needs pre-service teachers and requirements action research course English language teaching. It reflects on different procedures model, enriched by dialogic strategies informed Freire's pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach Through this first-person research, author aims improve her ...

There is little understanding of the processes and means involved in teacher learning. Further research is needed to better understand what happens when teachers learn. Therefore, using sociocultural theory (SCT) as a theoretical framework, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher learning was documented and examined. To achieve this goal, an in-depth description of nine in-service EAP teach...

We report insights from a design research study in higher education that aims at overcoming pre-service teachers’ experiences of fragmentation their educational programmes. The approach started the assumption could be reduced by initiating and conducting boundary crossing between practices subject matter didactics courses university. Following this assumption, principle design(ing) for interlin...

Current models for teacher education are not delivering enough teachers of sufficient quality across the developing world (UNSECO, 2015). In 2005, UNESCO suggested that ‘Training models for teachers should be reconsidered in many countries to strengthen the school-based pre-and in-service training rather than rely on lengthy traditional, institutional pre-service training’ (p3). Increasingly, m...