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Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice

Innovations and Explorations in Language Education

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Editors:
  1. Kenan Dikilitaş

    1. Department of English Language Teaching, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. Judith Hanks

    1. School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • Discusses the enactment of Potentially Exploitable Pedagogic Activities (PEPAs) in classroom language learning
  • Offers examples of Exploratory Practice in action
  • Moves current thinking forward by considering the Exploratory Practice principled framework itself

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Exploratory Practice: Explorations in Language Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development

    • Judith Hanks, Kenan Dikilitaş
    Pages 1-9

  3. Mentoring Language Teaching Professionals in/through Exploratory Practice

    • Judith Hanks, Kenan Dikilitaş
    Pages 11-37

  4. Enacting Exploratory Practice Principles: Mentoring Language Teaching Professionals

    • Wayne Trotman
    Pages 39-59

  5. Investigating and Understanding ‘Free Reading’ Experiences through Exploratory Practice

    • Talip Karanfil
    Pages 61-82

  6. Investigating Self-Reported Reading Comprehension via Exploratory Practice

    • Onur Ergünay
    Pages 83-101

  7. Understanding the Challenges of Academic Presentations for EAP Students: An Exploratory Practice Approach

    • Simon Mumford
    Pages 103-117

  8. Intertwining Exploratory Practice with ‘Standard’ Research Practices in Foreign Language Education

    • Gamze Öncül, Rhian Webb
    Pages 119-139

  9. Student Representation and Inclusion in Academic and Administrative Policymaking in Tertiary Education

    • Kerim Biçer
    Pages 141-156

  10. The Role of Exploratory Practice and International Collaboration in the University Classroom: A Guide to Fostering Students’ Democratic Competences

    • Rhian Webb, Troy Sarina
    Pages 157-180

  11. Why Do Students Consider Integrated Skills Lesson as a Grammar and Vocabulary Lesson?

    • Betül Doğdu, Dilek Arca
    Pages 181-203

  12. Conclusion: Developing in/through Exploratory Practice

    • Kenan Dikilitaş, Judith Hanks
    Pages 205-210

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 211-217
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About this book

This edited collection explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) by language teachers in classrooms. Written by practitioners, the chapters showcase unique examples of each principle of EP, with topics ranging from mentoring practitioner researchers, to teaching and learning in EAP, and investigating curriculum development in language teaching programs. The book provides example EP studies and gives voice to practitioners’ experiences of the challenges they experienced as well as the benefits. Examples include tackling intercultural communication in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms; pedagogy and curriculum design in language teaching; explorations of continuing professional development in language education. In doing so, it offers tools that can be transferred to other classroom contexts and used to aid teacher development. The concluding chapter highlights critical aspects of Exploratory Practice which emerge in the studies and examines how practitioners advanced their understandings. This book will appeal to those working in Applied Linguistics, TESOL research, as well as language teachers and teacher educators.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Language Teaching, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Kenan Dikilitaş

  • School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Judith Hanks

About the editors



Kenan Dikilitaş is Assistant Professor in the ELT department at Bahçeşehir University, Turkey. His primary research interests include English language teacher education and teacher professional development. He has published articles and books on action research and teacher research, and conducted several teacher research projects with local teachers.


Judith Hanks is Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests lie in the areas of Exploratory Practice (a form of practitioner research), language learning and teacher education, continuing professional development, and intercultural issues in language education.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice

  • Book Subtitle: Innovations and Explorations in Language Education

  • Editors: Kenan Dikilitaş, Judith Hanks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75735-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75734-6Published: 11 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09312-9Published: 30 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75735-3Published: 26 June 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 217

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Education, Intercultural Communication, English

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