K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning: Narratives for Understanding and Engaging in Teacher Research

This edited volume presents narratives on a range of methods for research on second language teaching and learning appropriate to the elementary, middle, and high schools (K-12). Teacher researchers in different worldwide contexts narrate their processes to explain and demonstrate practitioner research in context; contributors describe their research from exploring the rationale for the project, to designing the study, analyzing the data, and disseminating it. As such, the book illustrates how K-12 practitioners design, gather, analyze, interpret, and strategically employ data to make data-driven, evidence-based, and analysis-informed instructional, assessment, and programmatic decisions. This volume empowers teacher-researchers and allows them to envision research projects in their own classrooms. Offering new insights into the researchers’ thinking processes, challenges, and solutions, and advocating teacher research for understanding learning, the teaching of language, and the development of SLA, this text will appeal to educators and researchers involved in language education, second language acquisition, TESOL, ESL/EFL/ELT, and applied linguistics.

Kate Mastruserio Reynolds is Professor of TESOL/Literacy at Central Washington University, USA. A licensed K-12 educator, she has taught teachers in several countries and multilingual learners of English in public-school districts at elementary, middle schools and universities in various contexts. Dr. Reynolds’ publications include Introduction to TESOL: Becoming a Language Teaching Professional and Research Methods in Language Teaching and Learning: A Practical Guide. In 2022, she was inducted on to the TESOL International Association’s Board of Directors (2022-2025).

Khanh-Duc Kuttig is Instructor in EFL at the University of Siegen, Germany. She is involved in IATEFL’s Teacher Training and Education SIG, TESOL’s Teacher Educator Interest Section and is Chair of TESOL’s Professional Development Professional Council (2024). She is currently a doctoral student at the Heidelberg University of Education, where she is creating a corpus of teacher classroom language. In 2021, she was recipient of the TESOL International/NGL Teacher of the Year award.