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Aug 28 – 30, 2025
Can Tho University
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh timezone
Innovating ELT: Sustainability and Global Readiness

EFL Tertiary Teachers’ Transformation Through Lesson Study as a Tools of Reflective Teaching

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30m
Campus II (Can Tho University)

Campus II

Can Tho University

3/2 Street, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Viet Nam
Oral Presentation Professional Development Parallel Oral Presentations

Speaker

Anh Thi Nguyen (Can Tho University)

Description

Reflective teaching (RT) has long been recognized as a cornerstone of teacher professional development (PD), and recent years have witnessed growing interest in lesson study (LS) as a collaborative model to support RT and sustained instructional improvement. This research explores the transformative experiences of English as foreign language (EFL) tertiary teachers in Vietnamese higher education through the integration of LS as a tool of RT. Employing a phenomenological research design and drawing on Mezirow’s (1997) transformative learning theory, the study examines the cognitive, and emotional dimensions of teacher transformation, emphasizing the interplay among reflection-in-action, reflection-on-action, and reflection-for-action. The study is planned to be conducted over two semesters, with each semester including two LS cycles and covering an eight-week period at a private university in the Mekong Delta. Six EFL teachers (two early-career, two mid-career, and two late-career) will participate in these two cycles. Data will be collected through in-depth phenomenological interviews, reflective journals, researcher field notes, and LS artifacts. The findings aim to illuminate the essence of teacher transformation through LS as a reflective and dialogic practice, offering insights into sustainable PD models aligned with Vietnam's educational reform agenda. This research seeks to contribute to the discourse on RT and LS by providing evidence of their synergistic potential to foster teacher agency, teaching quality, collaborative environment, and pedagogical renewal in EFL contexts.

Biography

Pham Trut Thuy is a lecturer at Nam Can Tho University, where she primarily teaches courses on language skills, interpretation, and research methodology. She is currently a PhD student at Can Tho University. Her research interests include reflection, reflective teaching, and teacher professional development.

Primary author

Anh Thi Nguyen (Can Tho University)

Co-author

Thuy Pham (Nam Can Tho university)

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