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THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN PRAGMATICS Teacher responses to phase one Data collection

المؤلف:  Lynda Yates & Gillian Wigglesworth

المصدر:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

الجزء والصفحة:  P267-C15

2026-09-04

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THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN PRAGMATICS

Teacher responses to phase one

Data collection

We collected the reactions of the teachers involved in phase one in two ways. Firstly, a group interview with all the teachers was held immediately after the workshop in which we discussed the findings of the analysis. This aimed to elicit their views on what they had learned from their involvement in the research stage of the project. The discussion was guided to the extent that we specifically asked what they had gained and how they found participation in the different activities in which they had been involved, but also ranged widely over topics that they raised in connection with their insights resulting from the research. The whole discussion was recorded and transcribed in full. Secondly at the end of the project, all five teachers were interviewed individually, and these conversations were also transcribed.

In analyzing the transcriptions, we adopted an emic perspective on the data, scrolling through both the group and individual interview transcripts several times to identify the key themes which emerged. These were then classified according to Shulman’s (1986) categories, viz substantive, syntactic, pedagogical and curricular knowledge. We will also report the findings on substantive and syntactic knowledge, or why knowledge is organized in the way it is.