In this article, I examine the potential roles of reflective writing in ESOL teachers' learning and professional renewal. I demonstrate its importance with insights from aspects of a study on the accounts ESOL teachers construct when they do write about teaching.

This study explores student teachers’ discursive voices regarding the meaning of digital case material for their professional learning in teacher education. The analysis of the students’ reflective essays shows that future teachers hold a repertoire of positions via which they inscribe their relationship with technology. These positions are important to acknowledge since they strongly mediate t...

BACKGROUND Introducing reflective writing to a medical curriculum requires the acceptance and participation of teachers. The purpose of this study was to explore medical teachers' views on the benefits of introducing a reflective writing exercise into an undergraduate medical curriculum, including their levels of satisfaction and their concerns. We also investigated effects on the teachers' per...

The  present  study  was  conducted  to  investigate  the  relationship  among  three  important  teacher variables and students’ L2 achievement. To this end, 105 high school EFL teachers from Shiraz and Hamadan were asked to fill out three sets of instruments: the reflective teaching instrument, (Akbari, Behzadpour  &  Dadvand,  2010),  the  Attitudes  and  Beliefs  on  Classroom  Control  Inv...

As part of a large-scale project, the current qualitative study investigated the possible contribution of a consciousness-raising interactive workshop (as a form of professional development activity) to 30) 22 female and 8 male) Iranian EFL teachers’ professional identity construction. Thirty Iranian EFL teachers were asked to write two reflective journals (one individually and one collectively...

This paper reports upon the insights gained through working with teachers as writers at their own level. As part of a two year research project into the development of children’s voice and verve in writing, a group of fourteen teachers’ reflective journeys as writers were documented, two other groups of teachers and one group of student teachers also took part in writers’ workshop across the sa...