Martin Cortazzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 120832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Cortazzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cortazzi |
| SIGNATURE | CORTAZZI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Five metafunctions of good university teachers: A narrative inquiry in Kazakhstan
Good teachers, as models, inspire students towards learning for life and, often, to choose a teaching profession. Researching key elements of model teachers as exemplars is essential for ideas about evaluating university teaching quality, teacher education and professional development. This study explores how 33 university teachers in Kazakhstan recall their ‘model teachers’ from school and university, as identified in 42 narratives of personal e…
Researching China's Pre‐Service Teachers' Perceptions of AI Education for K‐12: An Elicited Metaphor Analysis
As Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) increasingly becomes integral to educational development, understanding how future educators perceive AI Education ( AIEd ) is crucial for the effective implementation of AI in school curricula to embed AI technologies throughout the age ranges of kindergarten to grade 12 (K‐12). The present study employed elicited metaphor analysis ( EMA ), an innovative qualitative method that elicits participants' conceptualis…
'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: Implications for research values, assumptions, and practices
There is considerable literature showing the complexity, connectivity and blurring of 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods in research. Yet these concepts are often represented in a binary way as independent dichotomous categories. This is evident in many key textbooks which are used in research methods courses to guide students and newer researchers in their research training. This paper analyses such textbook representations of 'qualitative…
Roles and models of English teachers in Kazakhstan
Roles and attitudes towards English in Kazakhstan can be seen through four strands of local and international heritages of education and cultures of language learning. Seen together with national policies, educational reforms, and linguistic contexts this comprises the English language learning environment. This is the contextual background against which we report findings regarding the professional and personal characteristics of ‘good’ English …
Making sense of the unexpected: Critical incident training in three Chinese universities
This paper reports the use of critical incidents in three rounds of purpose-designed training events for 87 staff in three Chinese universities. To develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC), we present a possible framework of six intercultural approaches, combinations of which yield relevant principles as a rationale for ways of teaching ICC and for using critical incidents. Feedback through questionnaires and interviews, plus observer…
Good Teachers: Visions of Values and Virtues in University Student Metaphors
Good teachers in university education embody combinations of continuity and change. In the first part here, university teaching is considered in Western philosophies and educational discourse to suggest teacher characteristics and meta-functions, but this article proposes wider internationalised dialogues within humanities which crucially take student views into account. In the second part, we analyse a database of 863 metaphors about teachers gi…
Moving eyes on pictures following visual grammar benefits meaning making: Evidence from the independent reading of Chinese preschool children
Children focus on pictures during storybook reading, thus, investigating children’s eye movement on the pictures of storybooks may implicate how they make meaning during the process. However, very few studies have examined this issue. In this study, an experiment tracking children’s eye movement with Tobii T60 was implemented for 115 children aged from 3 to 6 years, and data were analyzed based within a framework of the theory of ‘Visual Grammar’…
Music Generated Narratives: Elaborating the Da Capo Interview Technique
This paper shows how we played researcher-selected extracts of music to participants in “the Da Capo technique,” to elicit narratives of their learning experiences. Previously, we used music alongside other techniques in an interview about learning; here we explore the Da Capo technique as a standalone technique to study its potential for narrative recall. To do this, we played 10 one-minute long extracts of classical music (five “Western” and fi…
Practising cultures of learning in internationalising universities
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE internationalisation and collaboration networks worldwide. It presents an argument, evidenced with research data, for t…
Dialogues: Quant Researchers on Qual Methods
Qualitative researchers commonly perceive that positivist hard-science researchers and policies of governments deprecate qualitative methods and approaches. Curiously though, we could not see anyone asking quantitative researchers ‘What do you think about qualitative approaches and methods?’ We did this in interviews with 17 assumed quantitative researchers in the fields of advanced materials construction, civil engineering, transport modelling, …
Knowledge exchange: A review and research agenda for environmental management
There is increasing emphasis on the need for effective ways of sharing knowledge to enhance environmental management and sustainability. Knowledge exchange (KE) are processes that generate, share and/or use knowledge through various methods appropriate to the context, purpose, and participants involved. KE includes concepts such as sharing, generation, coproduction, comanagement, and brokerage of knowledge. This paper elicits the expert knowledge…
Language choices and 'blind shadows: Investigating interviews with Chinese participants
This article shows the importance of the language chosen for research interviewing when more than one language could be used. It does so through the context of research with Chinese speakers published in English. The article has two research aims: first, to investigate research reports regarding how they deal with the issue of language choice. Second, it presents and discusses the procedure and results of seven pairs of interviews with Chinese in…
Changing Practices in Chinese Cultures of Learning
This paper analyses of some changing aspects of learning and ‘cultures of learning’ in China: these are related to meeting the needs of Chinese learners studying in higher education in the UK. We use the term ‘cultures of learning’ to draw attention to the socio-cultural aspects of key practices, expectations and interpretations of learning and the term is understood to include diversity of practices both at individual and group levels. We use th…
Narrative Analysis in Ethnography
Cross-linguistic Awareness of Cultural Keywords: A Study of Chinese and English Speakers
In this paper we examine six Chinese terms which are among a handful of identifiable cultural keywords which have played an important role in Confucian heritage cultures. On the basis of an examination of common translations and explanations of the keywords in English, we show that their meanings are interrelated and overlapping. Using a questionnaire, we use 'definitional elements' from translations to investigate how native speakers of Chinese …
Narrative Analysis
English teaching and learning in China
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Narrative analysis
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Changing Practices in Chinese Cultures of Learning
This paper analyses of some changing aspects of learning and ‘cultures of learning’ in China: these are related to meeting the needs of Chinese learners studying in higher education in the UK. We use the term ‘cultures of learning’ to draw attention to the socio-cultural aspects of key practices, expectations and interpretations of learning and the term is understood to include diversity of practices both at individual and group levels. We use th…
Language choices and 'blind shadows: Investigating interviews with Chinese participants
This article shows the importance of the language chosen for research interviewing when more than one language could be used. It does so through the context of research with Chinese speakers published in English. The article has two research aims: first, to investigate research reports regarding how they deal with the issue of language choice. Second, it presents and discusses the procedure and results of seven pairs of interviews with Chinese in…
English teaching and learning in China
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Practising cultures of learning in internationalising universities
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE internationalisation and collaboration networks worldwide. It presents an argument, evidenced with research data, for t…
Narrative analysis
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Dialogues: Quant Researchers on Qual Methods
Qualitative researchers commonly perceive that positivist hard-science researchers and policies of governments deprecate qualitative methods and approaches. Curiously though, we could not see anyone asking quantitative researchers ‘What do you think about qualitative approaches and methods?’ We did this in interviews with 17 assumed quantitative researchers in the fields of advanced materials construction, civil engineering, transport modelling, …
Narrative analysis
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English teaching and learning in China
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Narrative Analysis
Narrative Analysis in Ethnography
Cross-linguistic Awareness of Cultural Keywords: A Study of Chinese and English Speakers
In this paper we examine six Chinese terms which are among a handful of identifiable cultural keywords which have played an important role in Confucian heritage cultures. On the basis of an examination of common translations and explanations of the keywords in English, we show that their meanings are interrelated and overlapping. Using a questionnaire, we use 'definitional elements' from translations to investigate how native speakers of Chinese …
Changing Practices in Chinese Cultures of Learning
This paper analyses of some changing aspects of learning and ‘cultures of learning’ in China: these are related to meeting the needs of Chinese learners studying in higher education in the UK. We use the term ‘cultures of learning’ to draw attention to the socio-cultural aspects of key practices, expectations and interpretations of learning and the term is understood to include diversity of practices both at individual and group levels. We use th…
Language choices and 'blind shadows: Investigating interviews with Chinese participants
This article shows the importance of the language chosen for research interviewing when more than one language could be used. It does so through the context of research with Chinese speakers published in English. The article has two research aims: first, to investigate research reports regarding how they deal with the issue of language choice. Second, it presents and discusses the procedure and results of seven pairs of interviews with Chinese in…
Knowledge exchange: A review and research agenda for environmental management
There is increasing emphasis on the need for effective ways of sharing knowledge to enhance environmental management and sustainability. Knowledge exchange (KE) are processes that generate, share and/or use knowledge through various methods appropriate to the context, purpose, and participants involved. KE includes concepts such as sharing, generation, coproduction, comanagement, and brokerage of knowledge. This paper elicits the expert knowledge…
Dialogues: Quant Researchers on Qual Methods
Qualitative researchers commonly perceive that positivist hard-science researchers and policies of governments deprecate qualitative methods and approaches. Curiously though, we could not see anyone asking quantitative researchers ‘What do you think about qualitative approaches and methods?’ We did this in interviews with 17 assumed quantitative researchers in the fields of advanced materials construction, civil engineering, transport modelling, …
Practising cultures of learning in internationalising universities
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE internationalisation and collaboration networks worldwide. It presents an argument, evidenced with research data, for t…
Music Generated Narratives: Elaborating the Da Capo Interview Technique
This paper shows how we played researcher-selected extracts of music to participants in “the Da Capo technique,” to elicit narratives of their learning experiences. Previously, we used music alongside other techniques in an interview about learning; here we explore the Da Capo technique as a standalone technique to study its potential for narrative recall. To do this, we played 10 one-minute long extracts of classical music (five “Western” and fi…
Good Teachers: Visions of Values and Virtues in University Student Metaphors
Good teachers in university education embody combinations of continuity and change. In the first part here, university teaching is considered in Western philosophies and educational discourse to suggest teacher characteristics and meta-functions, but this article proposes wider internationalised dialogues within humanities which crucially take student views into account. In the second part, we analyse a database of 863 metaphors about teachers gi…
Moving eyes on pictures following visual grammar benefits meaning making: Evidence from the independent reading of Chinese preschool children
Children focus on pictures during storybook reading, thus, investigating children’s eye movement on the pictures of storybooks may implicate how they make meaning during the process. However, very few studies have examined this issue. In this study, an experiment tracking children’s eye movement with Tobii T60 was implemented for 115 children aged from 3 to 6 years, and data were analyzed based within a framework of the theory of ‘Visual Grammar’…
Roles and models of English teachers in Kazakhstan
Roles and attitudes towards English in Kazakhstan can be seen through four strands of local and international heritages of education and cultures of language learning. Seen together with national policies, educational reforms, and linguistic contexts this comprises the English language learning environment. This is the contextual background against which we report findings regarding the professional and personal characteristics of ‘good’ English …
Making sense of the unexpected: Critical incident training in three Chinese universities
This paper reports the use of critical incidents in three rounds of purpose-designed training events for 87 staff in three Chinese universities. To develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC), we present a possible framework of six intercultural approaches, combinations of which yield relevant principles as a rationale for ways of teaching ICC and for using critical incidents. Feedback through questionnaires and interviews, plus observer…
'Qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods and approaches across subject fields: Implications for research values, assumptions, and practices
There is considerable literature showing the complexity, connectivity and blurring of 'qualitative' and 'quantitative' methods in research. Yet these concepts are often represented in a binary way as independent dichotomous categories. This is evident in many key textbooks which are used in research methods courses to guide students and newer researchers in their research training. This paper analyses such textbook representations of 'qualitative…
Researching China's Pre‐Service Teachers' Perceptions of AI Education for K‐12: An Elicited Metaphor Analysis
As Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) increasingly becomes integral to educational development, understanding how future educators perceive AI Education ( AIEd ) is crucial for the effective implementation of AI in school curricula to embed AI technologies throughout the age ranges of kindergarten to grade 12 (K‐12). The present study employed elicited metaphor analysis ( EMA ), an innovative qualitative method that elicits participants' conceptualis…
Five metafunctions of good university teachers: A narrative inquiry in Kazakhstan
Good teachers, as models, inspire students towards learning for life and, often, to choose a teaching profession. Researching key elements of model teachers as exemplars is essential for ideas about evaluating university teaching quality, teacher education and professional development. This study explores how 33 university teachers in Kazakhstan recall their ‘model teachers’ from school and university, as identified in 42 narratives of personal e…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works)