Nuriye KARAKAYA YILDIRIM

Revisiting the Research–Practice Divide: Teacher Agency, Institutional Conditions, and Practitioner Inquiry in EFL Contexts

The gap between the rhetoric of teacher-as-researcher and the daily reality of the classroom remains a significant chasm in English Language Teaching. While modern policy discourses frequently frame the EFL teacher as a proactive ‘knowledge producer’, the lived experiences of pra...