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Chapters in this section explore how research can contribute to English language teachers’ professional development. They present different traditions of research, including action research and heuristic research approaches, as paths for language teachers’ professional development. They also illustrate how research conducted according to different approaches such as classroom research, conversation analysis, (auto)ethnographic research, and critical research can help English language teachers enhance their professional practice. Other chapters in the section concern different aspects of language teachers’ professional lives and development, including teachers’ emotional labor, teacher cognition, classroom instruction, technology-enhanced professional development, and collective efficacy.
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Gao, X. (2019). Research and Teacher Education in English Language Teaching: Section Introduction. In: Gao, X. (eds) Second Handbook of English Language Teaching. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58542-0_67-1
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