Language Classroom Content & Pedagogy Junior/Senior High School Research-Oriented Short Presentation
Cancelled EFL Teachers’ Self-Concepts and Implementation of CLT in Rural Japan
This study explores how language teachers in senior high schools in rural Japan have perceived and implemented communicative language teaching as well as other approaches to teaching. Four Japanese teachers of English, who had been teaching in public high schools in southern Japan for more than ten years, participated. Data were analysed thematically using the framework of language teachers’ conceptual change (Kubanyiova, 2012). In the presentation, I will discuss context-specific challenges and practical implications.
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I am a Ph.D. student in at Waseda University and a part-time lecturer at Tama Art University in Japan. My professional interests include L2 learner and teacher well-being, learning beyond the classroom, and transformative learning, especially in rural contexts. I hold a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the University of Birmingham, UK. 【Researchgate】 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aya-Hayasaki 【Twitter etc.】 https://lit.link/ayahayasaki