Tag Archives: research

Social-Emotional Learning in ELT: 3 Takeaways From Action Research

Özgehan Uştuk
Özgehan Uştuk

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series.  I have been teaching EFL at higher education institutions in Turkey for more than a decade. One thing that became apparent to me over the years was … Continue reading

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The Ingenuity of Code-Mixing and Code-Switching

Olasumbo Akintode
Olasumbo Akintode

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. My journey as a teacher of English in Nigeria began with teaching Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), … Continue reading

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Identifying TESOL’s Future Research Priorities

Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. The TESOL International Association’s professional councils support the association’s objectives with professional knowledge and advice. One of seven professional councils, the Research Professional Council (RPC) focuses on … Continue reading

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Teacher Agency, Societal Change, and Professionalism in TESOL

Nicolas Parés
Nicolas Parés

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. Standards for teacher effectiveness offer direction for developing educators in the TESOL profession. In Colorado, where I work, the State’s Educator Effectiveness Office offers standards covering teacher … Continue reading

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Action Research: Untangling the Gordian Knot

Özgehan Uştuk
Özgehan Uştuk

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. I have been teaching English as a foreign language since 2010, and I have been actively involved in TESOL research since 2014 when I started my graduate … Continue reading

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Asking the Right Questions: Research in and for the Classroom

Antonella Valeo
Antonella Valeo

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. As teachers, we routinely come across challenges in our classrooms and respond by trying out new approaches. This response may work for us individually, in the moment, … Continue reading

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Recent Research Trends in ELT: A Look at TESOL Quarterly

Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. Part of the work of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) is to identify research trends in teaching English as an additional language. Published research is one … Continue reading

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What’s New at the Research Professional Council?

Jessie Curtis
Jessie Curtis

This blog is part of the TESOL Research Professional Council (RPC) Blog series. TESOL’s Research Professional Council highlights new research through teachers’ own stories of real-time engagement in times of challenge and change.

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