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The mismatch between EFL/ESL teachers' beliefs and teaching practice: what is missing in the literature?


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Tehrani, Hesam Tahsildar and Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar and Kotamjani, Sedigheh Shakib and Neissi, Sina (2017) The mismatch between EFL/ESL teachers' beliefs and teaching practice: what is missing in the literature? In: 4th International Conference on Educational Research and Practice (ICERP) 2017, 26-27 July 2017, The Everly Hotel, Putrajaya. (pp. 313-319).

Abstract

Language teacher beliefs play a significant role in research on language teacher professional development and teacher cognition. However, the literature on language teacher belief has persistently reported mixed findings about the congruence between what teachers state as their beliefs and their teaching performance. This paper, delineates the current contradictory research findings in terms of correspondence between belief and teaching practice, and concludes that the future research should adopt epistemic beliefs as the alternative to teacher beliefs as the research tool to elicit teacher beliefs. The author’s suggestion to replace teacher beliefs with teacher epidemic beliefs is assumed to render consistent correspondence between teacher beliefs and practice.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
Publisher: Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Keywords: Teacher beliefs; Teaching practice; Epistemic beliefs
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2018 01:27
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2018 01:27
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/58996
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