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Seyma Toker Bradshaw – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Second language (L2) teaching and learning to become a L2 teacher are charged with emotional work, which is inextricably connected to L2 teacher identity and agency (Kayi-Aydar, 2019). Research on the emotion labor of in-service L2 teachers (e.g., Benesch, 2018; Gkonou & Miller, 2020; Nazari & Karimpour, 2022) and L2 teacher identity…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Thieman, Dawn C. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Guided online coaching for teachers of emergent bilinguals (EBLs) is a job-embedded professional development model established from the educational policies and practices described in the No Child Left Behind Act and Every Student Succeeds Act. Having effective teachers who ensure an equitable, creative, and linguistically and culturally relevant…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingual Students, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies
Yeh, Ching-Yi – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Technology is beneficial to language learners when applied within well-design lessons. This study investigated the appropriateness and effectiveness of technology integration in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher preparation programs across the United States. It also examined faculty use of technology in TESOL…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Preservice Teacher Education
Tanaka, Jay – ProQuest LLC, 2019
At least one element of second language teacher education (L2TE) permeates contextual differences: reflection. Farrell (2012) suggests that the terms "reflection" and "reflective practice" are now mandatory terms used within in L2TE program curricula. Teacher learners (TLs) commonly engage in reflective assignments such as…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Reflection, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Munoz Cantu, Luisa Margarita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
From a sociocultural perspective, identity is understood as constructed through active negotiations with others (Gee, 2006; Lantolf, 2009). Language constitutes a mediation tool used to create meanings in new social and cultural contexts as individuals become members of new communities of practice (CoP). In doing so, an ongoing process of sharing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Professional Identity, Sociocultural Patterns, Teaching Methods
Flynt, Anna Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational study was to examine variables that arecorrelated with Tennessee K-12 English as a second language teachers' self-efficacy. With the changes stipulated by the "Every Student Succeeds Act" recently approved by the Tennessee Department of Education, there is a need to examine…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Park, Sun Young – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teachers in a new school setting tend to display lower teacher efficacy, which negatively affects teaching performance and student learning. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the perceptions of teacher efficacy in pre-service teachers and explore key factors influencing the perceptions as a result of pre-service training.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fagan, Keenan Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Numerous studies from China report that student teachers in English language teaching practicums resist communicative language teaching, CLT (Hu, 2002), to follow mentor teacher cultural practices of teaching to the Gaokao through explanations of vocabulary and grammar. This study addressed a knowledge gap to investigate the CLT problems and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Alfahid, Mai Fahid – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to lay the groundwork for a theoretical framework for disruptive practice in the context of Saudi English as a foreign language student teachers' learning-to-teach experience. The participants of the study were given a professional development workshop, "Flip Your EFL Classroom," which introduced student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Cournoyer, Amy Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This case study investigated case-based pedagogy using student-teacher-generated cases as an instructional tool in the preparation of 12 pre-service ESL, Bilingual, and Modern Foreign Language teachers enrolled in a Student Teaching Seminar at a post-secondary institution. In the fall methods course, each participant generated a case study based…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Observation, Case Studies
Tseng, Shu-Chun – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Building on Kachru's (2005) diagram of World Englishes and Norton's (2000) theoretical conception of identity, the researcher acknowledges that each Non-Native English Speaking Teacher (NNEST) comes to the English-speaking community with a different variety of Englishes. Each believes in various cultural values and norms, and his or her identity…
Descriptors: Ideology, Values, Educational Experience, English (Second Language)
Robinson, Elizabeth A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In July of 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) determined that Massachusetts had violated the civil rights of its English Language Learners (ELLs) by placing them in classes with inadequately prepared teachers. Massachusetts is the contextual background for this study but it also serves as an example of the challenges across the U.S. in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Lin, Li-Fen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the discursive process of the negotiation and construction of teacher identity in a US-based Master of Arts for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MATESOL) program. This study explores how both native-English-speaking (NES) and non-native-English-speaking (NNES) student teachers'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Native Speakers, Ethnography, Applied Linguistics
Macy, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Within the paradigm of Sociocultural Theory, and using Activity Theory as a data-gathering and management tool, this microgenetic case study examined the processes--the growth, change, and development--engaged in by student-teachers in a foreign language education program as they worked together to complete an activity. The activity involved…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Mitsuo, Sadayuki – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The two main purposes of this study were to create a systematic observation instrument in order to obtain clearer and more specific feedback from junior high school teachers about student teachers' teaching performances during their practicum, and to provide a way for junior college, university teachers, student teachers, and practicum supervisors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Preservice Teacher Education