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- Title
Enhancing the Reading of Peer-Reviewed Research Articles in the Teaching English as a Second Language Community.
- Authors
Rossiter, Marian J.; Abbott, Marilyn L.; Hatami, Sarvenaz
- Abstract
Although reading research can enhance instruction, this is not a frequent activity among adult ESL instructors (Borg, 2010). To fill this gap, we explored instructors' engagement with research; applied linguists' and instructors' conceptions of teacher-friendly, peer-reviewed research articles; and academics' commitment to their dissemination. Twenty-three academics completed a survey; eight adult ESL instructors read three articles, completed a questionnaire, and participated in a focus group interview. Despite a strong commitment to sharing their research with practitioners, academics in this study reported a number of constraints in their efforts to do so. We discuss differences in participants' perspectives and provide suggestions for academics to enhance practitioners' engagement with the research literature.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL peer review; LANGUAGE research; ENGLISH language education; ENGLISH as a foreign language; READING research; SCHOLARS; PUBLISHED articles
- Publication
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013, Vol 59, Issue 4, p674
- ISSN
0002-4805
- Publication type
Article