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The Developing Language Learner

An Introduction to Exploratory Practice

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Dick Allwright

    1. Lancaster, UK

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  2. Judith Hanks

    1. University of Leeds, UK

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Part of the book series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics (RPAL)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. General Introduction: Learners, and What We Think of Them

    1. General Introduction: Learners, and What We Think of Them

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 1-11

  3. The Developing View of the Learner

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Introduction to Part I

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 15-18

    3. Assessment and the Learner

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 19-36

    4. Method and the Learner

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 37-57

    5. Teacher Training and the Learner

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 58-79

    6. Learner Variables and the Learner

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 80-91

    7. Second Language Acquisition Studies and the Learner

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 92-104

  4. Research Models: What We Have and What We Need

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Introduction to Part II: What the Past Has Provided

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 107-121

    3. Going Beyond Experiments: Descriptive and Qualitative Classroom Research

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 122-139

    4. The Research We Now Need: Principled and Inclusive Practitioner Research

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 140-161

  5. Inclusive Practitioner Research in Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Introduction to Part III

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 165-174

    3. Getting Started on Working for Understanding

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 175-192

    4. Conducting Investigations

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 193-215

    5. The ‘Web of Life’ of the Rio de Janeiro Exploratory Practice Group

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 216-234

    6. Developing Understandings In and Beyond the Classroom

      • Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
      Pages 235-260

  6. Sources and Resources for Inclusive Practitioner Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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About this book

This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lancaster, UK

    Dick Allwright

  • University of Leeds, UK

    Judith Hanks

About the authors

DICK ALLWRIGHT is now retired from teaching applied linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Once an enthusiast for observational classroom research, he has in recent years developed Exploratory Practice, a form of practitioner research involving teachers and learners working together, during language lessons, to explore and develop their own understandings of their classroom lives. He is the author of Observation in the Language Classroom, and (with Kathleen M. Bailey) Focus on the Language Classroom: An Introduction to Classroom Research for Language Teachers.

JUDITH HANKS has been a teacher, teacher trainer, course director, director of studies, and a learner of languages for many years. She has worked in Italy, Singapore, London, Lancaster and is currently Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. A founder member of the EPCentre Team, she has given a number of workshops, talks and presentations on Exploratory Practice and is particularlyinterested in Teacher Development and in Learner (under-) Performance.
 
 

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