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Russell, Felice Atesoglu – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2022
This qualitative case study presents findings from research focused on the preparation of elementary teacher candidates (TCs) and the instruction of English learners (ELs) in the general education classroom. Set within the context of a literacy methods course on second language acquisition, this inquiry goes on to explore the influence of such…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Language Learners, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Role
Gresser, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language is a powerful tool authors use to construct meaning. To better meet the needs of their students, teachers need to learn about how language is used in text so that they can better help their students to comprehend the texts they read. This study investigated how a small group of pre-service teachers (PSTs) in an intermediate reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Sadeghi, Karim, Ed.; Thomas, Michael, Ed. – Digital Education and Learning, 2023
This edited book brings together documented evidence and theoretical propositions on the essential mediating role of digital technology in L2 teacher education and professional development. Topics range from technological affordances in teacher education, to challenges and responses to emergency transition from face to face to virtual professional…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Faculty Development
Shank Lauwo, Monica; Accurso, Kathryn; Rajagopal, Harini – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Plurilingual approaches to pre-service teacher education hold promise for critical engagement with linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity in equity-supportive ways. Employing critical action research, we as teacher educators implemented an equity-oriented plurilingual approach across three literacy methods courses for pre-service elementary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Preservice Teacher Education, Critical Theory, Action Research
Yan Yan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Background: English language learners (ELLs) are dramatically increasing in U.S. schools: by 2025, 25% of public school students will be ELLs (NEA, 2018). In one teacher education program in the Southeastern U.S., all students earning teacher certification must complete a course in second language methodology. This study seeks to understand…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Lesson Plans, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Song, SunYung – TESL-EJ, 2022
Although the number of emergent bilinguals (EBs), also known as English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. K-12 schools is growing at an increasing rate, K-12 mainstream teachers remain predominantly white and monolingual and receive little training for working with such learners. In addition, many states mandate "English-only" policies…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
Bai, Barry – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
Writing is a complex skill that requires effective teaching practices in the classroom. One of the challenges English teachers in the English as a second language (L2) context face is the lack of teacher experience in teaching English writing. This brief paper reports on a small-scale study on helping Hong Kong in-service primary school teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)
Shaw, Jerome M.; Lyon, Edward G.; Stoddart, Trish; Mosqueda, Eduardo; Menon, Preetha – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
This paper present findings from a pre-service teacher development project that prepared novice teachers to promote English language and literacy development with inquiry-based science through a modified elementary science methods course and professional development for cooperating teachers. To study the project's impact on student learning,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intervention, Science Instruction
Garcia, Margie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this content analysis study was to examine how reading comprehension was addressed in professional literacy texts used with preservice teachers at five universities in Texas. The universities for the study were selected based on the number of teachers graduating with their initial EC-4 teaching certificate between September 1, 2007…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reading Comprehension, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Previdi, Patricia Ann – Forum, 1999
Describes an interactive English-as-foreign-language methodology course for elementary school teachers. The class used an input loop methodology, where the instructors in the methodology course model the technique they are teaching. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language)

Ernst-Slavit, Gisela; Statzner, Elsa L.; Wenger, Kerri J. – Hispania, 1998
A university-elementary school partnership created a K-5 Spanish program staffed by elementary education majors with bilingual or English-as-a-Second-Language education endorsements. A central component is the FLES methods course for preparing college students to teach. A theoretical model provides the basis for integrating the course's two…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Haley, Marjorie Hall; Midgely, Allyson; Ortiz, Judy; Romano, Teresa; Ashworth, Lisa; Seewald, Amanda – Current Issues in Education, 2005
As a profession language educators are paying more attention to teacher-driven research to help clarify and explain those phenomena occurring in our classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to explore the following question: What happens when teachers apply a teacher action research (TAR) strategy for improving their classroom practice? I will…
Descriptors: Action Research, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction