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Sustainable Development of EFL Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Situated in Multiple Learning Activity Systems

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  • Jing Chen

    (School of Foreign Studies, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410076, China)

  • Danli Li

    (School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China)

  • Jinfen Xu

    (School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)

Abstract

This study examined how Chinese college teachers developed their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) by situating the learning process in three interactive activity systems during teaching English as foreign language (EFL) online in China. Data were collected from teachers’ diaries, in-depth interviews, and various records of online teaching. Findings indicated that teachers employed cultural artifacts, social relations, and beliefs and concepts to cope with difficulties that confronted their online teaching. They also performed sideways moves to new activities that provided systemic implications for the previous form of activity. Hence, the teachers constructed their TPACK through bi-directional learning within and between an online teaching activity system and its two interactive systems. This study highlighted the situativeness and distribution of TPACK development, and assumes significance in sustainable teacher development and further integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in English language teaching.

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  • Jing Chen & Danli Li & Jinfen Xu, 2022. "Sustainable Development of EFL Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Situated in Multiple Learning Activity Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-18, July.
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    1. Lim Lai Wah & Harwati Hashim, 2021. "Determining Pre-Service Teachers’ Intention of Using Technology for Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-14, July.
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    1. Lynde Tan & Russell Thomson & Joyce Hwee Ling Koh & Alice Chik, 2023. "Teaching Multimodal Literacies with Digital Technologies and Augmented Reality: A Cluster Analysis of Australian Teachers’ TPACK," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-15, June.
    2. Yimin Ning & Cheng Zhang & Binyan Xu & Ying Zhou & Tommy Tanu Wijaya, 2024. "Teachers’ AI-TPACK: Exploring the Relationship between Knowledge Elements," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-23, January.

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