Research on language teaching has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. Since the 1980s, research on language teaching has begun to recognize that teachers, apart from the method or materials they may use, are central to understanding and impro...
Research on language teaching has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. Since the 1980s, research on language teaching has begun to recognize that teachers, apart from the method or materials they may use, are central to understanding and improving language teaching. The purpose of this paper is to explore how research on language teachers has developed to date, thereby fundamentally introducing the new research direction of language teachers. First I thematically summarized research on language teachers and mentioned the limitations of the research. I concluded that teachers’ beliefs are a research area that deserves to be continually explored; however, the area needs a new research perspective that should be better suited to explaining the complexities of teachers’ beliefs. I finally discussed new research methodologies consistent with the research perspective shift in human cognition.