Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6850691 | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2016 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
This study investigates the learning experiences and the trajectories of EFL teachers' professional development in Chinese secondary schools under a socio-cultural framework. The findings indicate that social and individual affordances are both essential to individual teachers' professional development, and to the sustainable growth of the teacher learning community (TLC). The former is prerequisite to the latter, whereas the latter determines the route and pace of development. This paper also demonstrates the usefulness of activity theory in analysing the affordances of TLC, and advocates that all parties involved should understand, identify and create positive affordances for teacher professional development.
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Authors
Xiao Cheng, Li-ying Wu,