This book explores language teacher beliefs in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading instruction in the context of Chinese university English instructors.

"Language teachers are concerned with the relationship between what they know or believe and what they practice. In this book, Yang Gao thus addresses this gap.

Teacher beliefs play a fundamental role in the education landscape. Nevertheless, most educational researchers only allude to teacher beliefs as part of a study

This book brings together research on epistemology, belief systems, teacher beliefs, and text -- research that is usually presented separately, and in different

This book examines how and what teachers think in their practice of language teaching.