Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Addressing challenges in the classroom -- 1 Combining theory and practice: Findings from a collaborative project on oral task design -- 2 Improving second language education through Intensive German Weeks: An action research collaboration between teachers and researchers -- 3 An affordance-focused approach for working with authentic materials: A practice-research initiative -- Part 2: Learners as collaborative agents -- 4 Reciprocity and challenge in researcher-student collaborative labour in a multilingual secondary school -- 5 The organic processes of learning in an exploratory collaborative action research (CAR) project -- 6 Managing linguistic diversity in an Irish primary school: Reciprocal collaboration in practice and research -- Part 3: Collaborative research in professional development -- 7 Collaboration, reciprocity, and challenges: Professional development-in-practice -- 8 Teachers and researchers collaborating to develop effective language education: The project Observing Interlanguage -- 9 Learning to become an English teacher: Collaboration, context and the self -- Part 4: Collaborative research and national policy -- 10 From research to a national curriculum: The case of a lexical syllabus -- 11 Tensions in collaborative research with teachers in the context of language education policy change in Finland -- 12 National graduate schools in language education: Dimensions of collaboration and reciprocity -- Afterword -- 13 An ethical perspective on collaborative research -- Contributors -- Index