• Login
  • Register
  • Search

A Qualitative Study on College English Teachers’ Reflective Journals to Promote Their Professional Development

Xue Zhou

Abstract


Teaching reflection is significant in that it is a good way to reveal teacher’s teaching mental map. A qualitative analysis on the reflective journals of 19 college English teachers was conducted based on Nvivo 14. By employing open coding, axis coding, and selective coding, the teachers’ journals encompasses three dimensions, in which the teaching reflection emerges as the predominant component, followed by teacher development and student learning as the second and third largest components respectively. The results indicate that teachers’ reflective journals serve as an effective tool for transforming their implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge, thereby enhancing their professional development.

Keywords


Teacher journals; Reflective teaching; Qualitative study

Full Text:

PDF

Included Database


References


[1] Dewey, John. How we think: A restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the education process [M]. Chicago: Henry Regneny; 1933. p. 118.

[2] Liu, Xudong & Meng, Chunguo. A study on the development of reflective content and reflective level of English teachers’ teaching [J]. Foreign Language Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools, 2010, (12):1-6.

[3] Schön, Donald A. The reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action [M]. New York: Basic Books;1983. 130.

[4] Tajeddin, Zia & Watanabe, Atsuko. Teacher reflection: Policies, practices and impacts.[M]. Bristol: Multilingual Matters; 2022. p10.

[5] Korthagen, Fred.The practices of encouraging TESOL teachers to engage in reflective practice: An appraisal of recent research contributions [J]. Language Teaching Research 2016 (2), 223–247.

[6] Bartlett, Leo. Teacher development through reflective teaching. In J.C. Richards and D. Nunan (Eds.), Second language teacher education[M]. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1990. p. 202-214.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v8i5.13388

Refbacks
Copyright © 2020 Universe Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.