The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research

The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research is an authoritative and innovative treatment of language teacher action research (LTAR) as a growing research field.

Edited by two global thought leaders in LTAR, it features 34 original thematic contributions from a global range of experts at the cutting edge of the field, providing a comprehensive survey not found in any other single publication. Initiatives across the world are demonstrating the value of LTAR, which has been shown to provide language teachers with strong, exciting, and influential opportunities for learning, and gaining a feeling of empowerment. This groundbreaking Handbook theorises these premises from multiple perspectives in specific areas of language teacher education and curates a broad range of original content that integrates the practical and theoretical knowledge that has emerged over the years since LTAR began to develop.

This volume is a groundbreaking guide for researchers of language teaching, as well as practitioners and educators that want to harness the potential of LTAR in both theory and practice.

Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Anne Burns is Honorary/Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Curtin University, the University of Sydney, and The Education University, Hong Kong. She is also Professor Emerita at Aston University, Birmingham. She is acknowledged internationally for her work in advocating and promoting action research in TESOL/applied linguistics through extensive publication and research. Beginning in the early 1990s, she has facilitated and mentored language teacher action research in many different countries across the world.

Kenan Dikilitaş is Professor of University Pedagogy at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, in the Department of Education within the Faculty of Psychology. He has co-authored two monographs on action research and exploratory practice and has co-edited several volumes featuring contributions from reachers and teacher educators, highlighting insights from teachers and teacher educators based on their classroom experiences. His published articles in international journals focus on action research and how language teachers develop their teaching practices and professional identity through research engagement.