TEACHERS DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS THE REFLECTIVE TEACHING OF WRITING - AN ACTION RESEARCH

This paper is based on an action research where teachers' change process is the object of inquiry. The study was designed for the purpose of preparing writing teacher trainers in Israel and its context is a year-long inservice professional training program for teaching the writing process taking place at Tel Aviv University. The study consists of four phases: 1. Identifying the participants' problems; 2. Planning an intervention; 3. Developing pre- and posttest questionnaires and a scheme for analyzing transcripts taken from 100 hours of audiotaped discussions of the intervention and its implications; 4. Assessing these teachers' change as a result of the intervention and describing their route towards this change. © 1990.