28.4765, Books: Understanding Chinese EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in the Textbook-Based Classroom: Zhang

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:02:24
From: Simon Reber [S.Reber at peterlang.com]
Subject: Understanding Chinese EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in the Textbook-Based Classroom: Zhang

 


Title: Understanding Chinese EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in the
Textbook-Based Classroom 
Series Title: Linguistic Insights  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com
	

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/view/product/83369 


Author: Xiaodong Zhang

Hardback: ISBN:  9783034330534 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 55.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783034330534 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 38
Hardback: ISBN:  9783034330534 Pages: 208 Price: Europe EURO 46


Abstract:

Textbooks have long been considered a pivotal learning and teaching resource
in classrooms. However, there is a paucity of research on how teachers use
textbooks in relation to their beliefs, with analytic methods in such studies
mainly restrained to content-based thematic analysis. To this end, from the
perspectives of Halliday’s (1994) systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and
Vygostky’s (1978) socio-cultural theory (SCT), this book explores how a
Chinese college English teacher acts upon his beliefs and uses textbooks to
mediate his students’ English learning in his classroom.

Drawing on constructs of the SFL-based appraisal and speech function as well
as interview excerpts, the study reveals that in the textbook-based classroom
the Chinese college English teacher acts upon his beliefs that are constructed
by diverse contextual factors. Implications of this study include using SFL
and SCT to explore educators’ beliefs and practices and also providing
effective teacher education for Chinese college English instructors to reshape
their beliefs so that they are better prepared to use
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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