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Exploratory Practice in Language Education: How Teachers Teach and Learn

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Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development

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This chapter locates Exploratory Practice (EP) in the fields of language teaching and teacher learning. It considers the traditions of language teaching, from method to post-method, which have come to shape programmes in teacher education and development. Then, it discusses the ways EP, as an approach to practice, and as a form of practitioner research, can develop teachers’ pedagogic strategies through working with students to understand classrooms, and to transform the social space of the classroom.

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  1. Institute of Languages and Culture, Regent’s University London, London, UK

    Assia Slimani-Rolls

  2. Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Richard Kiely

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Slimani-Rolls, A., Kiely, R. (2019). Exploratory Practice in Language Education: How Teachers Teach and Learn. In: Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69763-5_1

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