The set reading for this module is

• Richards, J C (1998) Teacher beliefs and decision making, Beyond Training, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 65-85

Also recommended as sources of further activities for exploring beliefs are:

• Bowen, T and Marks, J (1994) Inside Teaching, Heinemann, London, especially chapter 1, 'Faith, guilt and doing the right thing'
• Richards, J and Lockhart, C (1994), Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge especially chapter 2, 'Exploring teachers' beliefs'
• Gebhard, J and Oprandy, R (1999) Language Teaching Awareness: A guide to exploring beliefs and practices Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

For those wanting to try out action research, I recommend:

• Wallace, M (1998) Action Research for Language Teachers, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1998
• Burns, A (1999) Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Much of the material in this module is based on Edwards, C (2001) Language teacher development from inside out, in Teaching Languages in Higher Education: Issues in training and continuing professional development, ed J Klapper, pp 35-55, CILT, London