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Kao, Yu-Ting – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Language teachers are expected to engage in classroom assessment practices and report on learners' progress aligned with proficiency standards, as well as prepare learners for external examinations. The term "language assessment literacy" (LAL) describes what the constituency of language instructors needs to know about assessment…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Carabantes, Luis; Paran, Amos – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Using activity theory, an offshoot of sociocultural theory, we examined how a group of preservice teachers (PSTs) of English in Chile learnt to design language teaching materials. Data from PSTs, teacher educators, and mentoring teachers shows how the conceptual tool of "teaching English as teaching the textbook" is appropriated by a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teacher Educators
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König, Johannes; Tachtsoglou, Sarantis; Lammerding, Sandra; Strauß, Sarah; Nold, Günter; Rohde, Andreas – Modern Language Journal, 2017
The study examines the connection between domain-specific learning opportunities in English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher preparation and preservice EFL teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Using a sample of 444 preservice EFL teachers for secondary schools, it contrasts groups at the end of the 2 phases required in German teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Graus, Johan; Coppen, Peter-Arno – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This study explored the role teacher education plays in influencing student teachers' pedagogical grammar cognitions--defined as what student teachers know, think, and believe regarding grammar instruction--on the premise that investigating the impact of teacher education (or lack thereof) is more fruitful when considering it the result of complex…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Grammar, Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language)
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Johnson, Karen E. – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article lays out a theoretical argument for empirical research that focuses on what happens inside the practices of L2 teacher education. Central to this argument is that it is inside these practices--the dialogic interactions between teacher educators and teachers--where teacher educators can see, support, and enhance the professional…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Burnett, Joanne – Modern Language Journal, 2011
This qualitative study followed two graduates from a master of arts in the teaching of languages program, who had taught for at least 3 years, into their domain of work in public school teaching. The study was carried out to better understand the day-to-day work, challenges, and social and interactive contexts in which language teachers engage. It…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Teacher Education Programs