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This chapter intends to reveal the processes in which teachers enacted the curriculum materials in classroom settings. Data collected from teachers’ and students’ interviews, lesson observations and documents will be analysed and triangulated to support teachers’ various ways of materials use. I first depict the key features of each teacher participant’s teaching to offer a holistic view of their utilization of curriculum materials during class. I then delineate five salient decision-making processes of materials use, namely, transforming, evaluating, appropriating, adapting and improvising, with the support of concrete evidence. In the end, a map of the interactive processes is portrayed to unveil the mediated relations in teachers’ materials use inside classrooms.
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Li, Z. (2020). Materials Use Inside Language Classrooms: Processes of Materials Use. In: Language Teachers at Work. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5515-2_4
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