Challenges and responses: A Complex Dynamic Systems approach to exploring language teacher agency in a blended classroom

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume18
dc.contributor.authorQi GY
dc.contributor.authorWang Y
dc.date.available2022-04-12
dc.date.issued2022-04-12
dc.description.abstractThis is a qualitative examination of how a Chinese language teacher responded to challenges and developed her agency in a unique teaching and learning environment, termed as the blended classroom. The uniqueness of this classroom lies in its attendance by two cohorts of students at the same time – the face-to-face and the online groups. The online group joined the face-to-face group and the teacher via a synchronous online classroom called Blackboard Collaborate. Through analysing data from the teacher’s reflection, face-to-face and email interviews and the recordings of her blended class, this research unfolds a semester-long trajectory of her agency development in the blended classroom. Guided by the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), we conclude that teacher agency is a system composed of multi-layers of subsystems and it is a product of the constant interaction amongst these interconnected and interdependent subsystems, with certain subsystems playing a more dominant role than others at a given stage of one’s agency development. This finding led to our proposal of a framework of teacher agency system. This research advances our understanding of teacher agency as a system in the context of online and blended learning.
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dc.identifier.citationThe JALT CALL Journal, 2022, 18 (1), pp. 54 - 82
dc.identifier.doi10.29140/jaltcall.v18n1.569
dc.identifier.elements-id452745
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1832-4215
dc.publisherCastledown Publishers
dc.relation.isPartOfThe JALT CALL Journal
dc.relation.urihttps://www.castledown.com/journals/jaltcall/article/?reference=569
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.subjectComplex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST)
dc.subjectteacher agency
dc.subjectlanguage teaching
dc.subjectblended learning
dc.subjectblended classroom
dc.subject.anzsrc1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject.anzsrc1702 Cognitive Sciences
dc.subject.anzsrc2003 Language Studies
dc.titleChallenges and responses: A Complex Dynamic Systems approach to exploring language teacher agency in a blended classroom
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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