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Feifei Chen1,2, Rohaya Abdullah2
1Department of College English, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Backgrounds And Aims:
Though EFL teachers now generally hold an equity-oriented mindset, they are often blamed for not implementing equitable practices in the actual teaching. The contributing factors causing cognition-practice inconsistency should be recognized and highlighted to ensure equitable teaching. Therefore, by taking an interpretative qualitative approach, this study explored in-depth the contributing factors that caused the mismatch between EFL teachers' equity-oriented cognition and practices.
Methods:
We adopted classroom observation and stimulated recall interviews with 10 university teachers to examine the contributing factors that lead to cognition-practice inconsistency.
Results:
Our results showed two experiential factors (unpleasant schooling experiences and limited effective training) and five contextual factors (unfavorable student factors, inharmonious classroom climate, toxic school contexts, equity-deficient education system, and negative social cultures) mediated the relationship between teachers' equity-oriented cognition and practices.
Conclusion:
The findings shed light on an association between influential factors and teachers' equity-oriented cognition-practice mismatch. Moreover, an equity-oriented teaching framework was thus proposed to help eliminate the constraining effect of these factors.
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