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Action research in language teacher education
Spent five years working on a variety of British Council/ODA-sponsored projects in Chinese universities. She left China in 1995, and is now working on the British Council's Project for the Development of Universities in Poland. She is based at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, where she is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics/ELT Methodology. Her interests include teacher education, language teaching methodology, and classroom research.
Associate Professor in the Foreign Languages Department, Beijing Normal University, where she is also Dean. She has an MA in applied linguistics from Ohio University and an MEd in TESOL from Manchester. Her interests are language teaching methodology, psycholinguistics, and classroom action research.
In recent years the notion of reflective teaching in teacher education has come to prominence. It is believed that trainee teachers should be encouraged to examine the aims and values of various traditions and methods, and reflect on their own teaching in the light of the experience and theoretical knowledge they have accumulated through professional reading and the teacher education programme. This article focuses on the implementation and development of a pioneering action research project in the Sino-British MA in English programme at Beijing Normal University. The aim of the project is to introduce the notion of action research into China, to encourage reflective teaching and classroom research among trainee teachers, and to act as a bridge between the theories studied during the two-year programme and the practical realities of the classroom.
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