Teacher agency (TA) has been increasingly supported as an influential factor for teacher
professional learning, school improvement and sustainable educational change. Previous …

Any test or assessment's effect on teaching and learning is termed as “washback”. Empirical
studies conducted in this area are relatively recent, starting with the remarkable work of …

Project-based learning (PBL) grounds instruction in authentic learning experiences where
students engage in real-world explorations that culminate in a final product or performance …

Although washback has been widely explored by applied linguists and education
researchers, little attention has been paid to teacher agency in relation to it. It is critical to …

This is a multiple case study exploring five high school English teachers' perceived supports
and challenges to enacting critical literacy pedagogy, and their experiences navigating the …

A survey completed by 22 literacy clinic directors indicated that clinics share beliefs and
instructional practices. Literacy clinics provide a context in which children are taught to read …

This book examines critical literacy within language and literacy learning, with a particular
focus on English as an Additional Language learners in schools who traditionally are not …

In secondary schools, English teachers are often made responsible for writing results in
national testing. Yet there have been few studies that focussed on this key group, or on how …

This article reports on findings of an online survey on academic instruction librarians'
conceptions and experiences of teacher agency in the context of their instruction work and …

This paper introduces concepts of teacher agency in the ecological approach which
emphasized an interplay between teachers' capacity and their engagement with the …