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Chong, S-W., Reinders, H. & Liu, Q. (Eds.), (2026). Research-practice partnership in language education. Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

The book examines collaborations among teachers, researchers, school leaders, policymakers, and communities working to develop evidence-based language education. It explores why certain partnerships succeed while others encounter difficulties.

The volume presents projects from local schools to international networks, demonstrating how ongoing collaboration and shared objectives can enhance language learning. It addresses partnership formation, stakeholder motivation, and translating research into practical classroom methods.

The book demonstrates how a more inclusive and balanced approach to research can benefit everyone involved in language education. It provides guidance for establishing sustainable partnerships that encourage practitioner research, increase research usability, and enable meaningful improvements in language teaching and learning practices.

Table of Contents

1. Research-Practice Partnership in Language Education: Three Perspectives — Sin Wang Chong, Hayo Reinders, Qi Liu
2. Teacher-Researcher Collaboration to Develop a Standardised Assessment Approach for an International Language Teaching Programme — Carolyn Westbrook, Aidan Holland
3. Innovation and Changing Roles in Times of Change: The Co-production of an Evaluation Rubric for Children's Plurilingual and Intercultural Competence — Janine Knight, Marta Segura
4. Language Teachers as Curriculum Makers: Promoting Teacher Agency Through Community of Practice and Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Design — Ruth Koro, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan
5. Integrating Graphic Novels into an English Communication Course in Japan: A Practice–Research Duoethnography — Justin Parker Pool, Xuan Minh Ngo
6. Researcher-Practitioner Collaborative Action Research for ESP Innovation in Uzbekistan: Insights on Achievements and Challenges — Komila Tangirova, Sue Wharton, Aybolgan Borasheva, Davron Abdullaev, Fariza Musaeva, Durdona Kadirbekova, et al.
7. Unlocking Pedagogical Puzzles: A Tripartite Research-Practice Partnership in Initial Language Teacher Education — Eda Ceylan, Eda Akgün-Özpolat, Irem Çomoğlu
8. Liquid Identities and Generative AI: A Research-Practice Partnership Exploring English Language Teachers' Integration of AI Tools for Teaching Writing — Daniel Xerri, Josianne Block, Jessica Laura Boezio, Savannah Davis
9. Dialogic Engagement on EMI: Insights from a Teacher-Led Podcasting Project — Matthew W. Turner, Matthew Y. Schaefer, Robert J. Lowe
10. Many Hands Make Light Work? Reflections on a Research-Practice Partnership Project to Develop TILES: The Toolkit for Improving Language Education in Scottish Schools — Fiona O'Hanlon, Ann Robertson, Thomas Chaurin, Bethan Owen
11. Researcher-Teacher Dialogue in the Design and Implementation of a Cognitive Linguistic Sequence to Teach Tense-Aspect in Catalan — Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé, Ares Llop Naya
12. "I Look at It Differently Now, but Differently in a Good Way": Developing Dispositions for Teaching Pronunciation Through a Research-Practice Partnership in Australian Adult Migrant Education — Skye Playsted, Damon P. Thomas
13. Harnessing the Affordances of Research-Practice Dialogue and Collaboration in English Language Education: The Case of School-Based Support in Hong Kong — Samuel C. S. Tsang, Kathy K. Y. Tong
14. Research-Practice Dialogue with Self: An Autoethnography Reflection on an Online English Language Proficiency Test for Young Learners — Gemma Perry, Sin Wang Chong
15. Research-Practice Partnership in Language Education: An Integrated View — Sin Wang Chong, Hayo Reinders, Qi Liu

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