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Reza Khany

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Research

Title
The Construct Definition of an English Language Teachers’ Content Knowledge
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
English Language Teaching,Construct Definition,Professional Teachers
Year
2016
Journal The Qualitative Report
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Researchers Reza Khany ، Anna Hajizadeh

Abstract

egardless of the increasing emphasis on the importance of language teachers’ content knowledge, there is a lack of consensus regarding its constituents. To this end, a panel of experts and non-experts were requested to express their opinions regarding the constructs of content knowledge (CK) in the format of an open-ended written questionnaire. The findings indicate that teachers’ CK includes eleven categories: teaching skills, structures, method and approaches, curriculum, language acquisition theories, classroom context, language testing theories, learner related knowledge, ELT research methods, and teacher related knowledge. The findings can help training educated teachers to be familiar with various aspects of the CK.