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Conceptualizing Materials Use

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This chapter consists of three major parts. The first part connects the main findings of the study. It starts with a brief recapitulation of teachers’ utilization of the curriculum materials and the corresponding influencing factors to address the first research question. The second part interprets the process of enacting the curriculum materials from the socio-cultural perspective, including the genesis of instrumentation (i.e. artefacts shaping subjects) and instrumentalization (i.e. subjects shaping artefacts) (Rabardel & Bourmaud, 2003). Drawing on Rabardel and Bourmaud’s (2003) instrument-mediated activity model, three types of mediated relations among teachers, students and other subjects will be elaborated to address the second research question. In the end, the original theoretical framework will be adapted to conceptualize the enactment of the curriculum materials.

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Li, Z. (2020). Conceptualizing Materials Use. In: Language Teachers at Work. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5515-2_6

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