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Ashcraft, Nikki – English Teaching Forum, 2022
Many Language teacher associations (LTAs) are nonprofit organizations and thus rely heavily on volunteers to carry out their mission. A volunteer is a person who donates time and labor in service to others. In the case of LTAs, volunteers play key roles in governing the association, planning and realizing national conferences and local workshops,…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Donaghue, Helen – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This article focuses on the use of display questions to construct positive identities in post observation feedback talk between in-service English language teachers and a supervisor. Using a linguistic ethnographic framework, microanalysis of dyadic feedback interaction is supplemented with ethnographic data gathered from participant perspective…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Siddiek, Ahmed Gumaa – Online Submission, 2017
This paper sheds light on the late Mohammed Al-Busairi's affluent academic journey. I will trace his education and his work experience in teaching, supervision, translation, literature, with special focus on his writings on lexicography and dictionary making. We will read some of his works with critical clues. The man had a massive contribution to…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Work Experience, Lexicography, Dictionaries
Salas, Spencer; Mercado, Leonardo – English Teaching Forum, 2010
While an extensive body of literature in TESOL studies the different paradigms that drive second language (L2) teachers' conceptualizations of their professional identities and practice, there is still a need for more research into how L2 supervisors construct the realities of supervision and how their interpretations of those realities inform…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Supervisory Methods, Observation, Reflective Teaching
Young, Sarah – Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2009
This brief provides an overview of the knowledge and skills that administrators need in order to support and supervise teachers of adult English language learners. It begins with a review of resources and literature related to teacher supervision in general and to adult ESL education. It continues with information on the background and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Supervision, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Schrier, Leslie L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
For the last two decades the foreign language education profession has spent considerable energy establishing professional guidelines for foreign language teacher preparation. This article discusses research that suggests that the profession should now direct its energies toward developing protocols to assist preservice teachers whose mental…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Health Needs, Teacher Education Programs
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Ashbaker, Betty Y.; Morgan, Jill – Educational Considerations, 2006
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 provided a clear mandate to school administrators to provide additional training for professional and paraprofessional staff. With its requirement that school districts must ensure that all staff are "highly qualified" for the roles assigned to them, it leaves no room for excuses or…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Regulation, Supervision, Disabilities
Ebaugh, Cameron D. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
The U.S. Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of Central and South American countries under the sponsorship of the Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. This series of studies is part of a program to promote understanding of educational conditions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Population Trends, Government (Administrative Body)