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The Promises of Action Research to Develop Persian for Academic Purposes Teachers’ Professionalism

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The purpose of this chapter is to examine the promises of action research to develop Persian for academic purposes (PAP) teachers’ professionalism. To that end, the critical characteristics of action research have been reviewed in this chapter. Then, teaching PAP features have been addressed through the main features of teaching languages for academic purposes proposed by Hyland (Teaching languages for academic purposes, The encyclopedia of applied linguistics, pp. 1–4, 2013). Later on, the promises that action research can have for PAP teacher education are discussed. Finally, based on the discussions, a model has been proposed to address action research in PAP teacher education programs. The model, metaphorically, uses action research as its engine to provide energy for developing PAP teachers’ critical thinking abilities, doing reflective practices, and raising their consciousness about different issues in PAP. Based on the proposed model, collaboration can be done among different PAP genres by engaging PAP teachers in action research. In the concluding remarks, I discuss the importance of providing internal and external supports for PAP teachers by PAP teacher educators and decision-makers to engage PAP teachers in action research and to develop their professionalism through action research.

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Meihami, H. (2021). The Promises of Action Research to Develop Persian for Academic Purposes Teachers’ Professionalism. In: Aghdassi, A. (eds) Perspectives on Academic Persian. Language Policy, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75610-9_7

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