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eason of participating in the community.       It is not easy for teachers to voluntarily participate in a learning community on weekends or continue to participate in it. In particular, some members from other cities need to travel a lot for the community learning. Nonetheless, the learning community considered in this study had already  lasted  for  more  than  2  years  at  the  time  this  research  started.  The  results  of  the  data analysis  show  three  factors  affecting  continuation  of  participation:  1)  the  strong  desire  to change  their  current  situation;  2)  the  similarity  of  their  background  and  interests  among participants; 3) the charm and attraction from the expert. Teachers were motivated to participate in the expert-led community because they felt that there  was  something  weak  with  their  working  or  their  professional  knowledge  and  wished  to seek  development.

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Conclusion 

This  study  set  out  to  examine  how  learning  activities  occured  within  an  expert-led teachers  learning  community  for  teachers  professional  development.  To  this  end,  it  explored three questions: 1) What leads teachers to participate in the expert-led learning community? 2) What learning and other activities are there in the expert-led teachers learning community? 3) How  does  the  expert-led  learning  community  promote  the  professional  development  of university English teachers?  The  main  findings  on  the  first  research  question  reveal  that  teachers  motivation  for voluntarily  participating  in  the  community  is  out  of  their  strong  desire  of  professional development but without a fixed and feasible direction and out of the charm of the expert. The  findings  relating  to  this  study's  second  question  indicate that  there  are  various  types of  activities  along  with  the  expert-led  learning  community.  Among  them,  the  expert-led learning,  the  cooperative  learning  within  the  community  and  the  independent  learning  belong to  learning  activities,  besides  them,  the organizing  activities  from  the  college  leaders  are  also very important to the building of the expert-led teachers learning community. The findings also indicate the  following  four  characteristics  of  the learning  activities  within  this  community:  1) they  have been  going through different stages on  the way of the community building; 2) they are  aiming  to  solving  problems  based  on  their  individu本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。