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Reasoning Teaching - Understanding Your Teaching Process in EFL Classroom

Ge Yu, Dunhua Kuang

Abstract


Reasoning teaching can help teachers understand what occurs in the teaching process including the teacher, the students,the context, the teaching contents and so on. This study fi rst elaborates what is reasoning teaching and demonstrates that robust reasoning can promote teachers’ learning and professional development by improving teachers’ cognitive awareness.

Keywords


Reasoning teaching; Robust reasoning; Teacher decision making; Refl ect

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i20.6432

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