Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Finance and Humanities Research

A Research on Self-Directed Professional Development of a Teacher of TESOL in Chinese Context

Authors
Kathy Meng
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Kathy Meng
Available Online March 2014.
DOI
10.2991/gefhr-14.2014.14How to use a DOI?
Keywords
self-directed professional development, critically reflective learning, reflective teaching, action research
Abstract

Nowadays, it is urgently imperative to call for more teachers’ active commitment to their self-directed professional development. Based on inductive-inferential approach and narrative-analytic approach, this paper is designed to observe and analyze a one-year programmer for self-directed professional development of the author, a teacher of English for Chinese learners, with herself as source and critically reflective learning, reflective teaching and action research as the major procedures. The result establishes the validity, reliability and feasibility of this programmer for the individual teacher concerned and some certain implication for teacher education and training.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Finance and Humanities Research
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
March 2014
ISBN
978-94-6252-006-6
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/gefhr-14.2014.14How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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