篇名 | FOLLOWING THE HEART OR THE CROWD: EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS AND ACTUAL PRACTICES OF IN-SERVICE LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN TAIWAN |
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卷期 | 14:1 |
作者 | Yu-Chih Sun |
頁次 | 119-144 |
關鍵字 | epistemological beliefs 、 teacher development 、 foreign language teaching 、 Scopus 、 THCI |
出刊日期 | 201706 |
The study aims to explore in-service teachers5 epistemological beliefs about the following five critical paradigms in second language education and their corresponding practices: (1) inductive/deductive grammar instruction, (2) intensive/extensive reading, (3) looking up unknown words in the dictionary/guessing from context, (4) focusing on accuracy/proficiency, and (5) task-based/test-based learning. The findings reveal that even though in-service teachers possess certain epistemological beliefs that shape the nature of their pedagogical practice, there is an ongoing negotiation between the dominant (e.g., students’ test performance) and less-dominant factors involved in their decision making. The teaching practice is both an individual and socially constructed behavior.