Improving Learner Reflection for TESOL: Pedagogical Strategies to Support Reflective Learning

This book explores how self-reflection can enhance student learning in the context of English as an additional language. It showcases research conducted with learners and educators in various settings and emphasizes the importance of guided and non-guided reflection, group and individual forms, and written, oral, and technology-mediated reflection. The volume provides practical pedagogical strategies and tools for implementing critical learner reflection and is a valuable resource for language-teaching professionals, scholars, and researchers in applied linguistics and language education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 25 June 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive research, conducted with learners and educators across various settings, highlights the transformative power of self-reflection in enhancing student learning. Building upon empirical insights, the text showcases how language professionals can foster critical self-reflection among learners of English as an additional language.

The research employed an ecologically sensitive practitioner research approach, addressing both practical and pedagogical concerns in the fields of TESOL, language teaching, and teacher education. By synthesizing interdisciplinary research and theory, the chapters demonstrate how various forms of self-reflection, including guided and non-guided, group and individual, and written, oral, and technology-mediated reflection, can promote autonomous, self-regulated learning among students at different levels.

While providing readers with a solid foundation in the theoretical and empirical knowledge supporting self-reflection, the volume emphasizes praxis, focusing on effective pedagogical strategies and tools required to implement, encourage, and evaluate critical learner reflection in one's teaching or research.

This volume serves as a crucial resource for language-teaching professionals, including in-service, pre-service, and teacher educators in the field of TESOL. Scholars and researchers in applied linguistics and language education more broadly will also find this volume invaluable.

Weight: 498g
Dimension: 157 x 236 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367371388