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Understanding Macau novice secondary teachers’ beliefs and practices of EFL writing instruction: A complexity theory perspective
Journal of Second Language Writing ( IF 5.448 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2020.100728
Shulin Yu , Hao Xu , Lianjiang Jiang , Iris Ka Ian Chan

Abstract Despite a growing recognition of the importance of teacher beliefs and practices, those of novice EFL secondary teachers regarding writing instruction remains underexplored. Drawing on complexity theory, this article reports on two secondary teachers’ beliefs and practices about writing instruction in Macau. Data were gathered through classroom observations, in-depth interviews and documents. The findings reveal two distinctive systems of beliefs and practices within the two cases, one being element-based and the other being process-oriented. Specifically, while the teacher of element-based beliefs experienced difficulties in enacting key elements of genre, audience, and feedback in practice, the teacher of process-oriented beliefs adopted a step-wise approach in instructional practice, which was nonetheless constrained by the school curriculum. These findings suggest that while the two cases were able to maintain internal coherence between their individual beliefs and practices, they experienced external constraints stemming from their curriculum and schools that led to dissonances in their beliefs and practices. The study calls for attention to the complex interactions among beliefs, practices and contexts and to how novice teachers develop their beliefs and practices systems regarding writing instruction within their situated contexts.

中文翻译:

了解澳门初中教师对英语写作教学的信念与实践:复杂性理论视角

摘要 尽管越来越多地认识到教师信念和实践的重要性,但初学 EFL 中学教师对写作教学的认识仍未得到充分探索。本文借鉴复杂性理论,报道了澳门两位中学教师对写作教学的信念和实践。数据是通过课堂观察、深入访谈和文件收集的。研究结果揭示了这两个案例中的两种不同的信念和实践系统,一种是基于元素的,另一种是面向过程的。具体而言,虽然基于要素的信念教师在实践中制定体裁、受众和反馈的关键要素方面遇到困难,但面向过程的信念教师在教学实践中采用了逐步方法,尽管如此,这仍受到学校课程的限制。这些研究结果表明,虽然这两个案例能够保持他们个人信仰和实践之间的内部一致性,但他们经历了来自课程和学校的外部限制,导致他们的信仰和实践不协调。该研究呼吁关注信念、实践和情境之间复杂的相互作用,以及新手教师如何在他们所处的情境中发展关于写作教学的信念和实践系统。
更新日期:2020-06-01
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