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Estela Ene Ed.; Betsy Gilliland Ed.; Sarah Henderson Lee Ed.; Tanita Saenkhum Ed.; Lisya Seloni Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers' unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
Huttner, Julia; Mehlmauer-Larcher, Barbara; Reichl, Susanne; Schiftner, Barbara – Multilingual Matters, 2011
This volume addresses the complex issues surrounding language teacher education, especially in EFL, and the development of professionalism in this field. By applying such concepts as Shulman's "pedagogical content knowledge", the development of teachers' knowledge base is investigated in a variety of settings, thus underpinning the contextual…
Descriptors: Expertise, Theory Practice Relationship, Language Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Hui, Ming-Fai, Ed.; Grossman, David L., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice. This book is the first systematic study of a group of teachers examining and enhancing their own practice through the inquiry process of action research. This book presents a broad overview of a variety of methodologies that can be used to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, College Instruction, Creativity, Action Research
Ellis, Sue, Ed.; McCartney, Elspeth, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2011
Modern primary teachers must adapt literacy programmes and ensure efficient learning for all. They must also support children with language and literacy difficulties, children learning English as an additional language and possibly teach a modern foreign language. To do this effectively, they need to understand the applied linguistics research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Applied Linguistics, Inservice Teacher Education
Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 2000
This volume seeks to identify the changes in teaching and learning foreign languages that are likely to be encountered in the next century and to describe the role that teachers, students, and administrators play in controlling such change. This volume seeks to respond to these questions in a unified and insightful manner and provide perspective…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Resources, Educational Technology, English (Second Language)
Harnisch, Henriette, Ed.; Swanton, Pauline, Ed. – CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 2004
"Adults Learning Languages" is aimed at those responsible for teaching languages across AE, FE and HE. In the much-changed world of post-19 languages, new funding and inspection regimes with revised needs for quality assurance are challenging practitioners to adapt and review approaches. This book offers teachers of languages to adults tools to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Quality Control
Hall, Joan Kelly, Ed.; Eggington, William G., Ed. – 2000
Chapters in this volume include the following: "Policy and Ideology in the Spread of English" (James W. Tollefson); "Linguistic Human Rights and Teachers of English" (Tove Skutnabb-Kangas); "Official English and Bilingual Education: The Controversy over Language Pluralism in U.S. Society" (Susan J. Dicker); "Non-Native Varieties and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, English Only Movement