Abstract:This entry provides a broad introduction to language teacher cognition, which is a field of study concerned with understanding all facets of the nonobservable dimension of teaching, such as teachers' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, feelings, and decision‐making. This domain of research is also concerned with the origins and development of teacher cognition and about its relationship with how teachers develop and what they do in the classroom. After emerging in the mainstream educational literature in the 1980s,… Show more
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