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A Case Study of Transformative Learning of College English Teachers

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The paper explores the transformative learning of three college English teachers. The study was conducted to understand how transformative learning contributed to their teaching and researching competences and their ways of thinking. The reflective journals, interviews and classroom observation were used to clarify the phases of their transformative learning and identify the outcomes of their transformative learning.

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This work is supported by Educational Commission of Jilin Province of China (Grant No. JJKH20190782SK).

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  1. Jilin Engineering Normal University, Changchun, 130052, Jilin, China

    Wenbo Zhao

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman

  2. University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan

    Neil Yen

  3. Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China

    Zheng Xu

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Zhao, W. (2021). A Case Study of Transformative Learning of College English Teachers. In: Atiquzzaman, M., Yen, N., Xu, Z. (eds) Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical System in Smart City. BDCPS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1303. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4572-0_154

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