Language Teacher Cognition in

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Language Teacher Cognition in Applied Linguistics Research: Revisiting the Territory, Redrawing the Boundaries, Reclaiming the Relevance MAGDALENA KUBANYIOVA University of Birmingham School of Education Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom Email: m.kubanyiova@bham.ac.uk ANNE FERYOK University of Otago Department of English PO Box 56 Dunedin 9054 New Zealand Email: anne.feryok@otago.ac.nz Understanding language teachers’ mental lives (Walberg, 1972), and how these shape and are shaped by the activity of language teaching in diverse sociocultural contexts, has been at the forefront of the subdiscipline of applied linguistics that has become known as language teacher cognition . Although the col- lective research efforts within this domain have contributed critical insights into what language teachers know, believe, and think in relation to their work (cf. Borg, 2006), limited progress has been achieved in addressing some of the most pertinent questions asked by applied linguists, policy makers, and the general public alike: How do language teachers create meaningful learning environments for their stu- dents? How can teacher education and continuing professional develop...