Collaborative Research in Language Education : Reciprocal Benefits and Challenges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Gudrun.

Contributor:

Bardel, Camilla.

Little, David.

Series:

Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] Series

Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] Series ; v.20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Research.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of applied linguistics. In a very broad sense, applied linguistics is understoodby focusing on the application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics, the series includes cognitive, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and educational perspectives. The following topicsare included in the series: Second language acquisition and the acquisition of additional languages Bilingual and multilingual education Language planning and language policy Literacy skills Second/foreign language pedagogy Translation and interpretation Language for specific purposes Discourse analysis Language testing and assessment Child language Language and gender Pragmatics and rhetorics Corpus analysis Critical pedagogies Research methodology in applied linguistics Language and technology.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Addressing challenges in the classroom

1 Combining theory and practice: Findings from a collaborative project on oral task design

2 Improving second language education through Intensive German Weeks: An action research collaboration between teachers and researchers

3 An affordance-focused approach for working with authentic materials: A practice-research initiative

Part 2: Learners as collaborative agents

4 Reciprocity and challenge in researcher-student collaborative labour in a multilingual secondary school

5 The organic processes of learning in an exploratory collaborative action research (CAR) project

6 Managing linguistic diversity in an Irish primary school: Reciprocal collaboration in practice and research

Part 3: Collaborative research in professional development

7 Collaboration, reciprocity, and challenges: Professional development-in-practice

8 Teachers and researchers collaborating to develop effective language education: The project Observing Interlanguage

9 Learning to become an English teacher: Collaboration, context and the self

Part 4: Collaborative research and national policy

10 From research to a national curriculum: The case of a lexical syllabus

11 Tensions in collaborative research with teachers in the context of language education policy change in Finland

12 National graduate schools in language education: Dimensions of collaboration and reciprocity

Afterword

13 An ethical perspective on collaborative research

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110787719

3110787717

OCLC:

1390922031