Wyse, D;
Sugrue, C;
Fentiman, A;
Moon, S;
(2014)
English Language Teaching and Whole School Professional Development in Tanzania.
International Journal of Educational Development
, 38
pp. 59-68.
10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.04.002.
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Abstract
This paper reports a two-year in-depth qualitative enquiry into English language teaching in a typical primary school in an economically disadvantaged ward of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The research found that modest but significant changes to teachers’ pedagogy, practice and understanding of the teaching of English could be achieved. One of the most important changes was the teachers’ increased understanding of the benefits of engaging learners in a greater range of interaction styles. Another important change was greater understanding of the importance of communicative intent and semantics in the teaching of English. The whole school approach to teacher development, including the research team's sustained engagement with the head teacher of the school, was an important context for the changes to practice.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | English Language Teaching and Whole School Professional Development in Tanzania |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.04.002 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.04.002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2014 Elsevier Inc. This manuscript version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | Teaching English; Leadership; Capacity building; Tanzania; Primary school; Pedagogy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1496147 |
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