The Nature of Teacher Research Barbara Henderson, PhD, is a professor of education at San Francisco State University. She co-coordinates the MA program in Education, Early Childhood Education Concentration, and teacher graduate and credential classes. Her interests are teacher research and children’s development in cultural contexts. She is also co-editor of the online teacher research journal ...

The aim of this study is to examine the advantages of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), especially vocabulary learning of English as a foreign or second language (L2) in terms of the two strands: automatization and learner autonomy. Previous studies articulate that technology-enhanced L2 learning could bring about some positive effects. The use of technological functions in a mobile dev...

This study sought to investigate the effect of teacher codeswitching, as compared to monolingual (L2) instruction, on L2 vocabulary learning and retention. Though a sizeable body of research on teacher beliefs and behavior regarding classroom L1 use has diminished the efficacy of monolingual pedagogy, the potential of strategic codeswitching for facilitating L2 learning has only recently come u...

This study set out to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between EFL teachers' emotional intelligence, reflectivity, and autonomy, and their students' L2 performance. The participants of this study included 88 EFL teachers who taught English at different private English teaching institutes and their students (N = 1266). First, the teachers completed three validated questionnaires: E...

Nurturing reflective teaching and improving critical-thinking instruction are two important goals in teacher education, but these are only achievable when teachers-in-training are provided with opportunities for building professional knowledge and for exhibiting reflective teaching practices. A computer simulation program (CS-TGCTS) was therefore developed here, and its effectiveness is explain...

The importance of teachers and the roles they play in the educative process are central to basic education, particularly in third world countries, there may be close substitutes for teacher-roles in the form of teaching machines with programmed instruction (Balogun 1988) but in third world countries such as Nigeria, teachers undoubtedly remain the managers of knowledge. Therefore, teacher educa...

The last three decades or so have seen a proliferation of studies into second language (L2) teachers’ cognition, encompassing their thinking, knowledge, and belief. However, are lacking the origins (or sources) L2 beliefs especially ideological beliefs. This paper reports subset findings from study investigating classroom practices secondary school EFL teachers in Indonesia. Aiming to reveal ab...

Initiation into contextualizing mindful second language teacher education (SLTE) has challenged teacher educators causing their retreat into mindless submission to ready-made standardized directives. To revive the starting perspective in curriculum development in light of the recent trend towards responsive SLTE, this practitioner research investigated how the context was incorporat...