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Changing practice in university English language teaching : the influence of the chronotope on teachers’ action

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Liddicoat, Anthony J., Murray, Neil, Zhen, Fengchao and Mosavian, Penny (2022) Changing practice in university English language teaching : the influence of the chronotope on teachers’ action. TESOL Quarterly, 56 (1). pp. 68-99. doi:10.1002/tesq.3026

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate how time is coordinated with the professional space of the universities in western China. It examines how the situatedness of English language teachers in institutional spaces influences their understandings of and the value attributed to time and how these impact on how they make changes to their practice following participation in a professional development workshop. Using a combination of observations and interviews, this study identified a preference for adopting teaching techniques that were implemented in less integrated ways and teachers’ discussion of change frequently invoked time pressures as a limiting factor in developing their teaching. The study draws on Bakhtin’s idea of the chronotope to examine how time is constructed within the space of the university and the ways that such constructions give value to time and how it works as a constraint on teachers changing their practice. It argues that culturally constructed understandings of the status of time in academic work limit what teachers feel able to do in changing their practice and constrain possibilities for change.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
L Education > LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers, English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Chinese speakers, English language -- Study and teaching -- China, Education, Higher -- China, Universities and colleges -- China , Language and languages -- Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title: TESOL Quarterly
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN: 0039-8322
Official Date: March 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2022Published
16 March 2021Available
31 January 2021Accepted
Volume: 56
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 68-99
DOI: 10.1002/tesq.3026
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
International Partnerships fundUniversity of Warwickhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741

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