Steve Mann
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Steve Mann (Professor of Applied Linguistics) currently works at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. He has experience in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe in both English language teaching and teacher development. He has published various books including Innovations in Pre-service Teacher Education (British Council) and Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching: Research-Based Principles and Practices (Routledge).
Steve Mann joins the Paris IAS in September 2025 for a one-month writing residency.
Research topics
Teacher development; qualitative research; action research; reflective practice.
Dialogic Reflection
Reflective practice has a long-established importance for practitioners, especially in education and healthcare. However, it has mostly been seen as an individual written enterprise. Some of Steve Mann’s recent work has deliberately shifted the footing of reflective practice to a more collaborative, data-led and spoken practice. This project provides an analysis of "dialogic reflection" and will consider its presence and importance in language teacher education, applied linguistics and qualitative research. After reviewing key aspects of the constructivist and sociocultural elements of reflective practice, data from recorded interactions and interviews will provide an analysis and review of the nature and value of dialogic reflection. The project analyses dialogic reflection in both face-to-face and on-line contexts.
The term “dialogic reflection” has been used increasingly to capture the collaborative, interpersonal and mediated nature of reflection. It has been used contrastively with other types of reflection, seeing it as a more prized form of. In such accounts, dialogic reflection is compared with “routine”, “descriptive” or “technical” reflection but there are rarely examples of dialogic moments or episodes included. This research provides a data-led account of ways in which speakers use dialogic reflection in real-time, in order to articulate emerging ideas, solve puzzles, explore metaphors and establish clarifications. The project also considers findings from Interdisciplinary teams in qualitative research and show how more interactive, arts-based co-constructed texts and experiences can be used in dissemination of research, in dialogic rather than transmissive ways.
Key publications
Steve Mann, Steve Walsh. Reflective practice in English language teaching: Research-based principles and practices. Routledge, 2017.
Steve Mann. The research interview. Reflective practice and reflexivity in research processes. 2016.
Steve Mann. "A critical review of qualitative interviews in applied linguistics". Applied linguistics, 32(1), 6-24, 2011.
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