Teacher Cognition and Language Teacher Education : beliefs and practice. A conversation with Simon Borg

Simon Borg is Professor of TESOL at the School of Education of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He teaches MA TESOL modules on Teacher Education and Grammar Teaching. He is on the editorial boards of Language Teaching Research and The Asian EFL Journal. His main area of research in TESOL focuses on language teacher cognition – i. e. , the study of what language teachers know, believe, think and do. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Language Teaching, System, Language Teaching Research, and ELT Journal, and the books Teacher Cognition and Language Education (2008) and Teacher research in language teaching: A critical analysis (forthcoming, 2013).