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A Study on Professional Development of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Institutions of Higher Education in Western China pp 185–239Cite as

A Study of the Discrepancy Between Planning Decisions and Interactive Decisions Made by Teachers in English Classrooms

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Our interest in studying teacher decision-making in the foreign language teaching processes stems from three sources: reflection on our own teaching experience, our interest in psychology of language, and the progress in research on teachers’ cognition.

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Jiang, Y. (2017). A Study of the Discrepancy Between Planning Decisions and Interactive Decisions Made by Teachers in English Classrooms. In: A Study on Professional Development of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Institutions of Higher Education in Western China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53637-7_7

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