Rise to the occasion: The trajectory of a novice Japanese teacher's first online teaching through action research
Rise to the occasion: The trajectory of a novice Japanese teacher's first online teaching through action research
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DOI：
10.1177/1362168819846794
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发表时间：
2021-03-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Chen, Julian ChengChiang
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作者：
Sato, Eriko;Chen, Julian ChengChiang
远程教育中的外语教学在管理和教学上都具有挑战性；针对新手从业者在线教学视角的研究也相对匮乏。本研究探讨了一位日语新手教师在第一次在线教学期间如何通过双向虚拟实践来引导和协商她的专业发展。数据是从新手和她的导师之间正在进行的对话日志中收集的，然后是半结构化访谈。定性结果表明，教学合理且个性化的数字工具不仅可以缩短师生之间的心理距离，还可以通过绩效驱动、基于标准的课程促进在线教学和学习。该研究以行动研究为基础，揭示了两位从业者如何解构/重建教师身份，并通过虚拟环境中强有力的监督和互惠教师评估来实现专业赋权。它进一步证明了这种证据驱动和研究导向的方法可以在多大程度上更好地解决远程教育中外语课程的真正问题。具体来说，这项情境响应研究表明在线课程交付、教师培训和项目可持续性本身得到了改善。
Foreign language teaching in distance education is administratively and pedagogically challenging; research on the perspectives of novice practitioners' online teaching is also relatively scarce. This study explores how a novice Japanese teacher navigated and negotiated her professional development in a two-way virtual practitionership during her first online teaching. Data were collected from ongoing dialogue journals between the novice and her mentor followed by a semi-structured interview. Qualitative results indicate that pedagogically-sound and personalized digital tools can not only reduce the psychological distance between the teachers and students, but facilitate online teaching and learning via a performance-driven, standard-based curriculum. Informed by Action Research, the study reveals how both practitioners de/reconstructed their teacher identities and achieved professional empowerment through robust supervision and reciprocal teacher evaluation in a virtual environment. It further demonstrates the extent to which this evidence-driven and research-oriented approach can better address the genuine concerns of a foreign language program in distance education. Specifically, this context-responsive study indicates the improvement of online course delivery, teacher training and program sustainability in its own right.