Drawing on published professional knowledge 

Language teaching, as an applied profession, builds on the collective knowledge of the profession. This term ‘professional knowledge’ can refer to both the personal, or experiential, knowledge that teachers accumulate through their experience, and to the public, or published, knowledge that teachers and researchers share, whether it is academic or practical in orientation and origin. This module will focus on the latter, and will help you to develop skills and strategies for drawing on published insights which may be relevant to your professional needs. In the activities that follow, we will explore the diverse ways in which knowledge is disseminated and the forms in which it might be presented. We will also think about how we can effectively engage with professional knowledge that is made available to us through publication, and the ways in which our motivations shape our engagement with professional knowledge.