潘孝泉编著的《外语教师专业成长过程中的自主反思型探究》包括七个章节，构成一个有机的整体，从整体上对一位外语新教师的成长个案进行了较为全面而深入的研究和探讨。第一章主要介绍了本研究的缘起、研究背景和研究目标，特别针对国内外有关教师专业发展的研究现状和对比，进行了较为全面的梳理和介绍。第二章为有关教师专业发展和新教师成长的理论综述。第三章是关于教师自主反思型探究的理论框架，依据国内外有关教师自主的研究、教师自主专业发展的内在要求以及建构主义的学习发展观，重点介绍了三个相关的理论——自决理论，人本主义心理学和建构主义理论。第四章是关于本研究的设计。第五章以研究对象的成长过程和她的自主反思型探究以及重构外语教学作为主线，描绘了她最初适应学校教学以及接下来的成长经历的几个生动片段和案例。第六章关于本研究的结果与讨论。第七章是本专著的结论性章节，也是本专著理论意义探讨的重点。

潘孝泉编著的《外语教师专业成长过程中的自主反思型探究》采用日渐凸显独特魅力的质的研究方法，以一位外语新教师作为个案研究对象，通过现场观察、访谈和其他的资料搜集方式，走进她的资料搜集方式，走进他的生活和教学，去了解她的成长经历，探寻该外语新教师是如何适应教学与生活的，遭遇到什么样的困难和障碍，如何自主的开展反思型探究以及在反思与探究的实践中如何重构语言教学来促进再自己的成长，由此溯源而上，旨在描述和解释该外语教师的生存状态，她对教育的探索与实践，这种探索实践对其教育教学的影响以及她在特定教学环境下的独特成长过程。《外语教师专业成长过程中的自主反思型探究》充分展现了一位外语教师的自主反思型探究、探索型实践以及重构外语教学的种种尝试，可以为当前外语教学改革提供一种视角。同时通过自主反思型探究、探索型实践等，该外语教师获得了专业的快速成长，这可以为外语新教师发展提供一种借鉴，也可以为教师专业发展研究、学校的教师培训、教师教育研究以及外语教师工作者提供一些建议和一种新思路。

Chapter One General Introduction

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 The Origin of the Research

 1.3 Research Background

 1.4 Aims and Rationale for the Research

 1.5 The Structure of the Book

Chapter Two Literature Review

 2.1 Introduction

 2.2 Definitions of Terms

 2.3 Novice Teacher's Growth and Development

 2.4 Teacher Behefs

 2.5 Teacher Autonomy for Professional Development

 2.6 Reflective Practice and Inquiry

Chapter Three Theoretical Framework of Teacher's

Autonomous Reflective Inquiry

  3.1 Self-determination Theory

  3.2 Humanistic Psychology

  3.3 Construetivist Theory

Chapter Four Methodology

  4.1 The Research Design and the Procedure of the Research

  4.2 Methods

  4.3 The Role of "I"

  4.4 Participants

  4.5 Data Collection

  4.6 Data Analysis

Chapter Five The Results of Narrative Inquiry

  5.1 On the Way to Initial Adaptability

  5.2 Linda's Growth Experiences

  5.3 Manifold Voices

  5.4 Linda's Growth Experience from Survival Stage to Mastery Stage to Impact Stage

  5.5 Linda's Exploration on Student's Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning

  5.6 Linda's Story : The exploratory practice on foreign language teaching

  5.7 Reflection on Action: The dialogue on educational values

Chapter Six Research Findings and Discussions

  6.1 Internal Factors

 6.2 External Factors

 6.3 Reflective Inquiry: An available way of novice teacher's growth

Chapter Seven Conclusion

 7.1 Introduction

 7.2 Implications

 7.3 Limitations

 7.4 Suggestions for Further Research

Bibliography

Appendices

 Appendix Ⅰ : Learner Diary Record

 Appendix Ⅱ : Student's e-mail to Linda

 Appendix Ⅲ : Comments on Linda from a student

 Appendix Ⅳ : Reflective summary, written by Linda as the author's requirement                 /

 Appendix V: Investigation form on environmental protection

 Appendix VI: Students' responses to Linda's teaching

 Appendix Ⅶ: Linda's narration on English teaching mode and innovation in high school (Partly extracted)   /

 Appendix Ⅷ:Linda's narration on autonomous curriculum(Partly extracted)

 Appendix Ⅸ :Linda's narration on English teaching in high school ( Partly extracted)              

 AppendixⅩ : Extracted data derived from interview with some student and Mr.Zhu

 AppendixⅪ : Extracted data derived from interview with Linda and her e-mail

 Appendix Ⅻ :The diaologue on educational values between the researcher and Linda (Partly extracted)