Exploring Language Teacher Efficacy in Japan (eBook)

Gene Thompson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
208 Seiten
Channel View Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78892-541-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on the individual and collective beliefs of teachers. It explores personal and collaborative dimensions of language teacher efficacy, discusses the ways in which efficacy beliefs develop, helps further understanding of factors that may influence teacher self-efficacy and suggests new directions for future research studies.

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This book examines language teacher efficacy beliefs, focusing on the individual and collective beliefs of Japanese high school teachers. It discusses personal and collective dimensions of language teacher efficacy related to personal second language (L2) capability, instructional L2 efficacy and collective capability towards collaboration. The book provides a detailed discussion about the ways in which these beliefs develop and situates the findings within the wider field of teacher efficacy research. It helps further understanding of factors that may influence teacher self-efficacy and suggests new directions for research to explore in future studies. It will appeal to postgraduates and researchers with an interest in language teacher cognition, the psychology of language teaching and those in the wider fields of self-efficacy, teacher efficacy and teacher agency. It is also of use to those with an interest in the high school English education system in Japan, as well as researchers investigating similar contexts.

Autor

lt;p>Gene Thompson is an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Japan where he carries out research on learner and teacher cognitions, self-efficacy, English medium instruction and teaching English as an international language. He has spent over 15 years working at Japanese schools in the area of language education and has significant experience carrying out language teacher workshops for secondary school teachers in Japan.

Inhalt

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Teacher Efficacy as a Form of Self-Efficacy      

Chapter 3. Language Teacher Efficacy     

Chapter 4. Approaches for Investigating Language Teacher Efficacy

Chapter 5. Developing a Language Teacher Efficacy Scale

Chapter 6. JTE Language Teacher Efficacy Beliefs and Dimensions              

Chapter 7. Language Teacher L2 Efficacy and L2 Usage   

Chapter 8. Efficacy for Language Instruction        

Chapter 9. Efficacy Towards Collaborative Practice and Collective Action

Chapter 10. Language Teacher Efficacy Belief Development         

Chapter 11. Where Next for LTE Research?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching
• Reihe/Serie: Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Japanese high school teachers of languages • Language acquisition • language teacher cognition • language teacher efficacy • language teacher self-efficacy • psychology of language teaching • self-efficacy beliefs • Teacher agency
• ISBN-10: 1-78892-541-6 / 1788925416
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78892-541-9 / 9781788925419