Community Blog and Narrative Inquiry as Tools for Technology-Enhanced Professional Development for ESL Teachers

Clandinin and Connelly (2000) introduces the metaphorical three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, which espouses the commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place as a framework to understand teachers' personal practical knowledge. This paper aims to explore how this framework's pot...

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Published inInternational Journal of TESOL Studies Vol. 4; no. 3; p. 78
Main Authors James, Cynthia C, Lee, Kean Wah, Arsyad, Abdul Aziz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International TESOL Union 01.09.2022
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English as a second language
Language instruction
Professional development
Teachers
Weblogs
Malaysia
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Summary:Clandinin and Connelly (2000) introduces the metaphorical three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, which espouses the commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place as a framework to understand teachers' personal practical knowledge. This paper aims to explore how this framework's potential can be enhanced beyond its role as an inquiry tool by integrating it with a self-reflective teacher professional development that utilises a community blog as a platform. To explore this, Malaysian ESL practitioners from various backgrounds were invited to contribute narratives of their technology-enhanced language teaching experiences in the classroom (see Keywords ESL teachers, personal practical knowledge, narrative inquiry, community blog self-directed teacher professional development
ISSN:2632-6779
2633-6898
DOI:10.46451/ijts.2022.03.07