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Investigating Transformative Practices In The Bangladeshi Classroom ...
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This paper examines the theoretical construct of transformative practices, and reports some evidence of transformative practices from a couple of Bangladeshi English teachers. The idea of transformative practices calls for teachers’ capabilities to invest their intellectual labor in teaching with an assumption that along with the academic advancement of the learners, it aims for the personal transformation for both the learners as well for themselves. Following an ethnographic research approach, data for this study were collected through in-depth interviews, informal talks and classroom observations for a period of one year. In relevance to the English classroom of the Bangladeshi context, from this study, references of transformative practices have been underlined from the participant teachers’ views on English language teaching as well as from their actual practices. According to data of this research, some evidence of transformative practices in the form of critical language awareness and personal ... : {"references": ["E. Auerbach, \"Making Meaning, Making Change. Participatory Curriculum Development for Adult ESL Literacy.\", Language in Education: Theory & Practice, vol. 78, 1992.", "P. Benson, \"Autonomy in language teaching and learning\", Language Teaching, vol. 40, no. 01, pp. 21-40, 2007.", "S. Borg, \"The impact of in-service teacher education on language teachers' beliefs\", System, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 370-380, 2011.", "S. Borg, \"Language Teacher Cognition\", in Second Language Teacher Education, A. Burns and J. C. Richards, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 163-171, 2009.", "S. Borg, Teacher Cognition and Language Education: Research and Practice, 1st ed. London: Continuum, 2006.", "P. Bourdieu, \"The economics of linguistic exchanges\", Social Science Information, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 645-668, 1977.", "A. Canagarajah, Resisting linguistic imperialism in English teaching, 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.", "K. Ecclestone, Learning autonomy in post-16 education: the ...
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Keyword:
Critical language awareness; personal theories of practices; teacher autonomy; transformative practices.
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1130639
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