Winter 2017

This Winter 2017 edition of ETAS Journal brings in one issue this extraordinary portfolio of writings from many places around the globe by some of the most eminent writer-educators and passionate advocates of research literacy as a key to our professional and personal growth. Premised on the belief that research literacy is an essential and sustained part of what it means to be a teacher professional, this first of our two-part Special Supplement on Research Literacy – our modest contribution to fostering research literacy among English teachers – offers only a sampling of what is a vast and vibrant field of inquiry.

Table of Contents

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT – Research literacy: Supporting teacher research in English Language Teaching

Foreword / Daniel Xerri

INSIGHTS

     ‘A classroom is a centre of inquiry in all its forms’: Thomas S. C. Farrell on teacher research / Daniel Xerri

SUPPORTING TEACHER RESEARCH IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Teacher-research in second language education / David Nunan

Helping language teachers to produce ‘quality’ research / Mark Wyatt

Developing teacher research competence: Simpler than you think, more necessary than you realise / Achilleas Kostoulas

The centrality of story in teacher inquiry / Gary Barkhuizen

Engaging in enquiry: Tracing the trajectory of a research project / Hanna Brookie and Cynthia White

‘We can also be researchers’: Teacher research in initial English language teacher education / Darío Luis Banegas

Supporting teachers’ action research: Ten tips for educational managers / Anne Burns

PERSPECTIVES

‘Breaking boulders into pebbles’: Christine Coombe on teacher research / Daniel Xerri

INSPIRED/INSPIRING PRACTICES: VOICES FROM ETAS

The mental lexicon and their implications for EFL teaching: Some insights / Stefan Kneubühler

Enhance your teaching with corpus linguistics / Alison Wiebalck

High school project: Increasing students’ intercultural awareness through language biographies / Orbal Jones

The practical benefits of doing a Master’s degree / Ben Hoyt