Sarah Mercer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4978669 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Mercer |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Mercer |
| ASSINATURA | MERCER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Family Health International 360 |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3004-2012 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Engagement with English beyond the classroom
Although there has been growing interest in researching engagement within the language classroom, comparatively less is known about how learners interact with and use the target language outside the classroom. To understand how learners in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting engage with English across different contexts of their lives, this qualitative interview study explored behavioural, emotional, and cognitive engagement with Engli…
Well‐Being and Language Learning
This chapter outlines definitional concerns surrounding the construct of well‐being, by considering both hedonic and eudaemonic perspectives. It takes a strongly socially situated understanding highlighting the interplay between personal, individual characteristics and socio‐contextual factors, and systemic structures. It emphasizes the need to take a holistic view when examining well‐being as teachers and learners lead complex lives beyond schoo…
Research agenda on well-being and language education
This article advocates for the expansion of research into the topic of well-being in language education. It begins by outlining key definitional concerns and then moves to outline general issues and gaps in the current body of research such as a need for a diversification in research in social contexts, working conditions, languages, cultures, as well as a clarification of the domain specificity of the construct. In the main body of the paper, th…
Multilevel engagement in academic L2 reading
This study aimed to develop and validate four self-report questionnaires related to four contextual levels of academic L2 reading engagement, namely, activity, session, course, and out-of-class, each incorporating behavioral, cognitive, and affective dimensions of engagement. The activity-level scale measured students' engagement in an L2 reading comprehension activity, which lasted several minutes; the session-level scale assessed students' enga…
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools
The present paper seeks to explore the contextual factors shaping the emotional labour experiences of secondary school teachers and explain the ways these educators manage their emotions. Data were generated through a series of 20 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with modern language (ML) teachers in the UK. The findings showed that teachers experienced primarily negative forms of emotional labour and these experiences were driven by five int…
They Are our Future”
While the emotion of pride has received increasing attention in general psychology, it has gone largely overlooked in the field of education generally, and language education specifically. This study explores the sources of pride reported by 140 English language teachers from various contexts across the globe. Data were generated through an online survey using a series of open‐ended items addressing various dimensions of participants' professiona…
Teaching and Learning English
Nowoczesny, wszechstronny podręcznik z zakresu metodyki nauczania języka angielskiego, łączący rozmaite perspektywy metodologiczne i dyscyplinarne. Niezbędnik dla początkujących nauczycieli, studentów anglistyki lub lingwistyki stosowanej oraz osób zainteresowanych najnowszymi metodami nauki języka angielskiego. “Teaching and Learning English - Education for Life offers a blend of old and new, where all those at every stage of their education and…
Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.
Language Learner Engagement
Exploring University ESL/EFL Teachers’ Emotional Well-Being and Emotional Regulation in the United States, Japan and Austria
Teacher well-being has been shown to play a central role in the quality of teaching and student achievement (Day & Gu, 2009; Klusmann, Kunter, Trautwein, Lüdtke, & Baumert, 2008). However, the teaching profession is currently in crisis as it faces record rates of burnout and attrition (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Hong, 2010; Lovewell, 2012), including stressors specific to the changing nature of foreign language teaching (Hiver & Dörnyei, 2015; Wiecz…
Expanding Understanding of Community Health Worker Programs
With health worker shortages in rural areas, community health workers (CHWs) are instrumental to the sustainability of primary health care and to the ability to meet health needs. Identifying appropriate operational models and incentive structures is an important element of long-term success. This article reports on CHWs' work demands and affective response to their volunteer work within the broader context of their livelihoods in Madagascar. A c…
Psychology for language learning
There is a wide body of research that shows how vitally important teachers are to successful learning processes. What they do, think, feel and believe are central to what happens in their classrooms, and, essentially, what happens to their learners. It is perhaps, therefore, surprising that the field of language learning psychology has focused so predominantly on the psychology of learners with so little attention devoted to teachers in compariso…
Factors Related to Incomplete Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Attending Three HIV Clinics in the Copperbelt, Zambia
Positive Psychology in SLA
This book explores theories in positive psychology and their implications for language teaching, learning and communication. Chapters examine the characteristics of individuals, contexts and relationships that facilitate learning and present several new teaching ideas to develop and support them.
Evaluation of a male engagement intervention to transform gender norms and improve family planning and HIV service uptake in Kabale, Uganda
Men's limited understanding of family planning (FP) and harmful cultural gender norms pose obstacles to women's FP use. Thirty-two model men called 'Emanzis' were recruited from the community in Kabale, Uganda to lead men from their peer group through a 10-session curriculum designed to transform gender norms and motivate men to engage in FP and HIV services. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted before (n = 1251) and after (n = 1122) implementa…
Expanding HIV testing and counselling into communities
Improving HIV testing and counselling (HTC) requires a range of strategies. This article reports on HTC service delivery by Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda in the context of a model integrating this new component into pre-existing family planning services. Eight health centres from matched pairs were randomly allocated to intervention or control. After being trained, 36 VHTs reporting to selected facilities in the intervention group started…
Conducting an audit to improve the facilitation of emergency maternal and newborn referral in northern Ghana
Ghana Health Service conducted an audit to strengthen the referral system for pregnant or recently pregnant women and newborns in northern Ghana. The audit took place in 16 facilities with two 3-month cycles of data collection in 2011. Midwife-led teams tracked 446 referred women until they received definitive treatment. Between the two audit cycles, teams identified and implemented interventions to address gaps in referral services. During this …
Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA
Re-imagining the Self as a Network of Relationships
Social Network Analysis and Complex Dynamic Systems
Repeat Use of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Urban Kenya and Nigeria
CONTEXT: Little is known about the frequency and patterns of use of emergency contraceptive pills among women in urban Kenya and Nigeria. METHODS: To recruit women who had used emergency contraceptive pills, individuals aged 18-49 were intercepted and interviewed at shopping venues in Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria, in 2011. Information was collected on 539 Nairobi and 483 Lagos respondents' demographic and behavioral characteristics, attitud…
Psychology for language learning
There is a wide body of research that shows how vitally important teachers are to successful learning processes. What they do, think, feel and believe are central to what happens in their classrooms, and, essentially, what happens to their learners. It is perhaps, therefore, surprising that the field of language learning psychology has focused so predominantly on the psychology of learners with so little attention devoted to teachers in compariso…
Research agenda on well-being and language education
This article advocates for the expansion of research into the topic of well-being in language education. It begins by outlining key definitional concerns and then moves to outline general issues and gaps in the current body of research such as a need for a diversification in research in social contexts, working conditions, languages, cultures, as well as a clarification of the domain specificity of the construct. In the main body of the paper, th…
They Are our Future”
While the emotion of pride has received increasing attention in general psychology, it has gone largely overlooked in the field of education generally, and language education specifically. This study explores the sources of pride reported by 140 English language teachers from various contexts across the globe. Data were generated through an online survey using a series of open‐ended items addressing various dimensions of participants' professiona…
Expanding HIV testing and counselling into communities
Improving HIV testing and counselling (HTC) requires a range of strategies. This article reports on HTC service delivery by Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda in the context of a model integrating this new component into pre-existing family planning services. Eight health centres from matched pairs were randomly allocated to intervention or control. After being trained, 36 VHTs reporting to selected facilities in the intervention group started…
Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA
Re-imagining the Self as a Network of Relationships
Social Network Analysis and Complex Dynamic Systems
Repeat Use of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Urban Kenya and Nigeria
CONTEXT: Little is known about the frequency and patterns of use of emergency contraceptive pills among women in urban Kenya and Nigeria. METHODS: To recruit women who had used emergency contraceptive pills, individuals aged 18-49 were intercepted and interviewed at shopping venues in Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria, in 2011. Information was collected on 539 Nairobi and 483 Lagos respondents' demographic and behavioral characteristics, attitud…
Conducting an audit to improve the facilitation of emergency maternal and newborn referral in northern Ghana
Ghana Health Service conducted an audit to strengthen the referral system for pregnant or recently pregnant women and newborns in northern Ghana. The audit took place in 16 facilities with two 3-month cycles of data collection in 2011. Midwife-led teams tracked 446 referred women until they received definitive treatment. Between the two audit cycles, teams identified and implemented interventions to address gaps in referral services. During this …
Positive Psychology in SLA
This book explores theories in positive psychology and their implications for language teaching, learning and communication. Chapters examine the characteristics of individuals, contexts and relationships that facilitate learning and present several new teaching ideas to develop and support them.
Evaluation of a male engagement intervention to transform gender norms and improve family planning and HIV service uptake in Kabale, Uganda
Men's limited understanding of family planning (FP) and harmful cultural gender norms pose obstacles to women's FP use. Thirty-two model men called 'Emanzis' were recruited from the community in Kabale, Uganda to lead men from their peer group through a 10-session curriculum designed to transform gender norms and motivate men to engage in FP and HIV services. Cross-sectional surveys were conducted before (n = 1251) and after (n = 1122) implementa…
Expanding HIV testing and counselling into communities
Improving HIV testing and counselling (HTC) requires a range of strategies. This article reports on HTC service delivery by Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda in the context of a model integrating this new component into pre-existing family planning services. Eight health centres from matched pairs were randomly allocated to intervention or control. After being trained, 36 VHTs reporting to selected facilities in the intervention group started…
Factors Related to Incomplete Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adolescents Attending Three HIV Clinics in the Copperbelt, Zambia
Exploring University ESL/EFL Teachers’ Emotional Well-Being and Emotional Regulation in the United States, Japan and Austria
Teacher well-being has been shown to play a central role in the quality of teaching and student achievement (Day & Gu, 2009; Klusmann, Kunter, Trautwein, Lüdtke, & Baumert, 2008). However, the teaching profession is currently in crisis as it faces record rates of burnout and attrition (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Hong, 2010; Lovewell, 2012), including stressors specific to the changing nature of foreign language teaching (Hiver & Dörnyei, 2015; Wiecz…
Expanding Understanding of Community Health Worker Programs
With health worker shortages in rural areas, community health workers (CHWs) are instrumental to the sustainability of primary health care and to the ability to meet health needs. Identifying appropriate operational models and incentive structures is an important element of long-term success. This article reports on CHWs' work demands and affective response to their volunteer work within the broader context of their livelihoods in Madagascar. A c…
Psychology for language learning
There is a wide body of research that shows how vitally important teachers are to successful learning processes. What they do, think, feel and believe are central to what happens in their classrooms, and, essentially, what happens to their learners. It is perhaps, therefore, surprising that the field of language learning psychology has focused so predominantly on the psychology of learners with so little attention devoted to teachers in compariso…
Language Learner Engagement
Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
This accessible book offers a fresh perspective on engagement, with an emphasis on how teachers can create the conditions for active engagement and the role learners can play in shaping the way they learn. Drawing on extensive theoretical knowledge, the book takes an applied approach, providing clear principles and practical strategies for teachers.
Teaching and Learning English
Nowoczesny, wszechstronny podręcznik z zakresu metodyki nauczania języka angielskiego, łączący rozmaite perspektywy metodologiczne i dyscyplinarne. Niezbędnik dla początkujących nauczycieli, studentów anglistyki lub lingwistyki stosowanej oraz osób zainteresowanych najnowszymi metodami nauki języka angielskiego. “Teaching and Learning English - Education for Life offers a blend of old and new, where all those at every stage of their education and…
Teacher emotions and the emotional labour of modern language (ML) teachers working in UK secondary schools
The present paper seeks to explore the contextual factors shaping the emotional labour experiences of secondary school teachers and explain the ways these educators manage their emotions. Data were generated through a series of 20 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with modern language (ML) teachers in the UK. The findings showed that teachers experienced primarily negative forms of emotional labour and these experiences were driven by five int…
They Are our Future”
While the emotion of pride has received increasing attention in general psychology, it has gone largely overlooked in the field of education generally, and language education specifically. This study explores the sources of pride reported by 140 English language teachers from various contexts across the globe. Data were generated through an online survey using a series of open‐ended items addressing various dimensions of participants' professiona…
Well‐Being and Language Learning
This chapter outlines definitional concerns surrounding the construct of well‐being, by considering both hedonic and eudaemonic perspectives. It takes a strongly socially situated understanding highlighting the interplay between personal, individual characteristics and socio‐contextual factors, and systemic structures. It emphasizes the need to take a holistic view when examining well‐being as teachers and learners lead complex lives beyond schoo…
Research agenda on well-being and language education
This article advocates for the expansion of research into the topic of well-being in language education. It begins by outlining key definitional concerns and then moves to outline general issues and gaps in the current body of research such as a need for a diversification in research in social contexts, working conditions, languages, cultures, as well as a clarification of the domain specificity of the construct. In the main body of the paper, th…
Multilevel engagement in academic L2 reading
This study aimed to develop and validate four self-report questionnaires related to four contextual levels of academic L2 reading engagement, namely, activity, session, course, and out-of-class, each incorporating behavioral, cognitive, and affective dimensions of engagement. The activity-level scale measured students' engagement in an L2 reading comprehension activity, which lasted several minutes; the session-level scale assessed students' enga…
Engagement with English beyond the classroom
Although there has been growing interest in researching engagement within the language classroom, comparatively less is known about how learners interact with and use the target language outside the classroom. To understand how learners in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting engage with English across different contexts of their lives, this qualitative interview study explored behavioural, emotional, and cognitive engagement with Engli…
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