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Reflection On And For Actions: Probing Into English Language Art Teachers' Personal And Professional Experiences With English Language Learners, Huili Hong, Karin Keith, Renee Rice Moran Feb 2019

Reflection On And For Actions: Probing Into English Language Art Teachers' Personal And Professional Experiences With English Language Learners, Huili Hong, Karin Keith, Renee Rice Moran

ETSU Faculty Works

Effective ELL teaching and learning is profoundly influenced by the teachers' personal experiences and personalities (Farrell, 2016), their experience as language learners as well as language teachers (Farrell, 2007), and their beliefs about learning and teaching a second language (Farrell, 2015; Farrell & Ives, 2015). This study honored and examined in-depth the often-discounted stories/reflective narratives of our teachers. This paper reports a qualitative cases study that explores three veteran teachers' reflection on their personal and professional experiences with ELLs for self-discovery over years (Cirocki & Farrell, 2017) so that they can further reflect for their future actions with ELLs (Burns …