Abstract
Current SLA theories have delivered important language-learning notions. This paper will report the results of a study into 64 high school English teachers’ beliefs about language learning and their instructional practices, with a focus on two of them. A questionnaire was developed on the basis of major tenets of second language learning and administered to the 64 participants. In addition, classroom observations and interviews were employed to explore the two focal teachers’ beliefs and their actual classroom instruction practices. Results show both consistencies and inconsistencies between the participants’ beliefs and major SLA notions and between the two focal participants’ beliefs and their classroom practices.
(Copyedited by Duncan Sidwell & Ding Yanren)
About the author
WANG Chaochang is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied English at Ming Chuan University. Her research interest includes second language acquisition, teacher education, and language testing.
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