JALT2025 - Tokyo

Engagement in Teacher Training: An Activity Theoretical View

Nov 1, 2025, 1:55 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Teacher and Professional Development Room 407

Speaker

Cassandra Lim (Sophia University)

Description

Two Singaporean Secondary school English teachers’ life histories (Cole & Knowles, 2001) will be presented, focusing on their engagement with language planning and policy (LPP) as students and teachers. The teachers’ engagement with their teacher training program will be examined through the frameworks of third generation activity theory (AT) and teacher cognition (TC) (Borg, 2003). The findings from this study are further discussed to examine how it can be applied to Japanese educational contexts.

Summary

Two Singaporean Secondary school English teachers’ life histories (Cole & Knowles, 2001) will be presented, focusing on their engagement with language planning and policy (LPP) as students and teachers. The teachers’ engagement with their teacher training program will be examined through the frameworks of third generation activity theory (AT) and teacher cognition (TC) (Borg, 2003). The findings from this study are further discussed to examine how it can be applied to Japanese educational contexts.