The Developing Language Learner: An Introduction to Exploratory Practice (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics) - Hardcover

Allwright, Dick; Hanks, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403985316 ISBN 13: 9781403985316

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

This book provides a new learner-centred take on collaborative classroom research, involving learners as active practitioner-researchers. This is the first book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice as an inclusive form of collaborative research. It offers an original perspective, marrying research, learning and teaching. It challenges traditional testing-driven curricula and offers an alternative whereby research itself generates the curriculum. It also offers an alternative perspective on learners, seeing them as practitioners of learning alongside teachers as practitioners of teaching. It is copiously documented with accounts by learners and teachers, illustrating their experiences of classroom research.This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.

About this title

Book Description

A new learner-centred take on collaborative classroom research, involving learners as active practitioner-researchers

About the Author

DICK ALLWRIGHT now retired from teaching applied linguistics at Lancaster University, UK, once an enthusiast for observational classroom research, has in recent years developed Exploratory Practice, a form of practitioner research involving teachers and learners working together, during language lessons, to explore and develop their own understandings of their classroom lives. He is the author of Observation in the Language Classroom, and (with Kathleen M. Bailey) Focus on the Language Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers. JUDITH HANKS has been a teacher, teacher trainer, course director, director of studies, and a learner of languages for many years. She has worked in Italy, Singapore, London, Lancaster and is currently Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. A founder member of the EPCentre Team, she has given a number of workshops, talks and presentations on Exploratory Practice and is particularly interested in Teacher Development and in Learner (under-) Performance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1403985316
• ISBN 13: 9781403985316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 327