The Development of Teacher Professional Development Program for Communicative Language Teaching Using Community of Practice Approach in Thailand

Abstract

The teacher professional development program for communicative language teaching using community of practice approach is the process of collaborating with teachers for exchanging knowledge, learning from past experiences, problem solving, and applying new knowledge to develop the teaching profession. The purpose of this research was to study the results of using a teacher professional development program for communicative language teaching using a community practice approach and then develop it further. The participants were teachers who were willing to participate in using the teacher professional development program. The teachers were interviewed with the same questions to evaluate the changes in communicative language teaching beliefs and communicative language teaching competencies to compare the competencies before and after using program. This research found that the participants held correct belief and conformed to communicative language teaching approach. Also, the development score of the evaluation of communicative language teaching competencies was higher than before using the program followed by a relative increase in score at a high level.

Keywords: Teacher Professional Development Program, Communicative Language Teaching, Community of Practice, Communicative Language Teaching Beliefs, Communicative Language Teaching Competencies

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-33-16

Publication date: November 30^th 2020