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The Changing Role of Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Teachers in the Context of Curriculum Reform: Teachers’ Understanding of Their New Role (2022)
Journal Article

The New Curriculum Standards for teaching English introduced major changes in the culture of teaching and learning English in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Changes have been linked to changing goals for English instruction and a revision of Co... Read More about The Changing Role of Chinese English-as-Foreign-Language Teachers in the Context of Curriculum Reform: Teachers’ Understanding of Their New Role.

Lessons from a Shanghai reading lesson (2021)
Conference Proceeding

In recent years the influence of the “high performing” Asian cultures has been felt in UK education, particularly in mathematics teaching. However, China, and in paticular the region of Shanghai, also does exceptionally well in teaching the reading o... Read More about Lessons from a Shanghai reading lesson.

Pre-service teachers undertaking international Research: developing skills of reflection (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student teachers: how the shift to online collaborative learning affects student teachers’ learning and future teaching in a Chinese context (2021)
Journal Article

In March 2020, universities in China transitioned to online education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and intensified the focus on collaboration in online learning. However, little is known about the impact of undertaking online collaborative le... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student teachers: how the shift to online collaborative learning affects student teachers’ learning and future teaching in a Chinese context.

How does experience of online collaborative learning affect the views of trainee teachers in a Chinese context? (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Designing Multimodal Composition Activities for Integrated K-5 Programming and Storytelling (2020)
Conference Proceeding

A broad interest in embedding computing into K-5 settings has resulted in a proliferation of research on integrated approaches to programming. Although much of these efforts focus on supporting learning in science, engineering, and mathematics (or ST... Read More about Designing Multimodal Composition Activities for Integrated K-5 Programming and Storytelling.

Designing for Integrated K-5 Computing and Literacy through Story-making Activities (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Proponents of computing education have long stressed the value of computing for learning in other disciplines. Much of the research towards this end has focused on supporting learning in science, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM). However, a tre... Read More about Designing for Integrated K-5 Computing and Literacy through Story-making Activities.

Primary homework in England: the beliefs and practices of teachers in primary schools (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 ASPE. This study examines teachers’ views about and practices in homework in primary schools, based on questionnaire data from 235 primary teachers and 19 in-depth interviews. Findings suggest that teachers prioritise contradictory goa... Read More about Primary homework in England: the beliefs and practices of teachers in primary schools.

Learners' and teachers' beliefs about learning tones and Pinyin (2017)
Book Chapter

This paper reports a study of the perceptions of English-speaking learners and teachers about the challenges and difficulties of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) learning in England. The study involved a Likert-scale questionnaire and follow-up int... Read More about Learners' and teachers' beliefs about learning tones and Pinyin.

What’s the use of handwriting?: a white paper (2017)
Book

Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills (2014)
Journal Article

This paper reports on the development of reflectiveness and research skills in eight preservice teachers, through their participation in a funded research project to develop the handwriting of children with literacy problems. The project aimed to ana... Read More about Pre-service teachers undertaking classroom research: developing reflection and enquiry skills.

Learning from each other: co-teaching Chinese to pre-service teachers (2014)
Book Chapter

This study presents a case study co-teaching of beginner level Chinese as part of initial teacher education in England. The study involved interviews with teachers and observations of planning and teaching. The teaching in this study aims to teach el... Read More about Learning from each other: co-teaching Chinese to pre-service teachers.

Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions (2013)
Journal Article

Several early learning programmes have targeted children’s reading, particularly their relationships with books. One, Bookstart, provided free books to babies attending their 8-month health check at local clinics. Study of this programme suggested th... Read More about Exploring a national book-gifting scheme: parents' and children's reactions.

Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds (2013)
Journal Article

Although handwriting has a fairly low status in literacy education, evidence is accumulating that it has an important role in written composition. In particular, handwriting automaticity appears to relate to success in composition. This relationship... Read More about Handwriting automaticity: the search for performance thresholds.