The aim of the study was to provide English language teachers with appropriate tools and procedures to enable them to reflect on and improve their practice through the use of the SETTVEO (Self Evaluation of Teacher Talk and Video Enhanced Observation) app.
By using the app and engaging in dialogic reflection, participants were able to develop enhanced classroom interactional competence (CIC; Walsh, 2013). Findings suggest that the use of data-led self-observation, accompanied by dialogue, can promote up-close and detailed understandings of teaching and learning.
In the current study, SETT and VEO were combined to help teachers profile their interactions, improve their CIC and enhance learning and learning opportunities.
By sharing their reflections in an international online community of practice (CoP), it was possible to develop a global network of reflections, with teachers identifying and talking about common problems and issues in a range of English language contexts. Online communities were formed between teachers sharing videos of interactions, evaluated according to the SETT framework and using the SETTVEO's tagging function. In this way, it was possible to share understandings of CIC – which is highly context specific.
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