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Valdera Gil, Francisco; Crichton, Hazel – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Recent policy reforms in Scotland mean that all primary teachers are expected to teach a foreign language (FL) to children from age 5, introducing a second language around age 9. This small-scale research study aimed to ascertain 38 primary teachers' perceptions of their confidence to teach an FL to primary learners and what they felt would be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent scholarship in professional development (PD) has advocated for solid conceptual frameworks and understanding of the complex process involved in how language educators may continue to develop and fulfil the current challenging teaching demands. However, specific relationships underlying departmental cultures and how language educators relate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
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Sato, Eriko; Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Language Teaching Research, 2021
Foreign language teaching in distance education is administratively and pedagogically challenging; research on the perspectives of novice practitioners' online teaching is also relatively scarce. This study explores how a novice Japanese teacher navigated and negotiated her professional development in a two-way virtual practitionership during her…
Descriptors: Action Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Beginning Teachers
Cuesta Medina, Jhon Alvaro – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Using Dornyei's (2005) L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) and Kubanyiova's (2007, 2009) model of 'possible language teacher selves' as main theoretical frameworks, this multiple case study explored four language teaching assistants' developmental patterns with regards to their ideal language teacher selves over a two-year period. It also examined…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teaching Assistants
Roger William Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
International teaching assistants (ITA's) perform a variety of instructional roles in undergraduate education within North American universities. ITA training programs often exist to prepare them for such roles. Empirical work has examined ITA training courses, but most often through the practitioner's lens of program evaluation, which obscures…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Second Language Learning, Self Concept
Martinez, Ambre Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines what graduate teaching assistants believe about teaching and learning a foreign language based on their prior experiences. Additionally, it examines how TAs' beliefs develop as they begin teaching and how their classroom practice is subsequently shaped. The participants were five first-year TAs in three different foreign…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Second Languages
Kinginger, Celeste – 1998
An instructional module designed to help prepare college-level teaching assistants (TAs) for their duties in second language instruction is presented. The purpose of this module is to assist TAs in integrating what they are learning about teaching methods, language acquisition, and the nature of the profession. There are five parts, each…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Development, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Heilenman, L. Kathy, Ed. – 1998
This collection of papers is divided into two parts. After "Introduction" (L. Kathy Heilenman), Part 1, "Research and Language Program Directors: The Relationship," includes "Research Domains and Language Program Direction" (Bill VanPatten); "Language Program Direction and the Modernist Agenda" (Celeste…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrators, College Admission, College Faculty