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Kewalramani, Sarika; Adams, Megan; Cooper, Rebecca – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
A novel way to support change and development in a country's education system is to send teachers abroad on a professional learning program, so that they become immersed in a different culture, language and education system. The focus of this study was to investigate the supports and tensions created during a professional learning and leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Teachers, Professional Development
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Howard Scott; Matthew Smith – Open Learning, 2024
This paper outlines how digital technologies support innovation in teaching and learning the English language across Palestinian Higher Education Institutes. A European project collaborated to build staff capacity in knowledge and skills, shown here through the redesign of curricula, pedagogical training, the design and implementation of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Digital Literacy, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Wolff, Dominik; De Costa, Peter I. – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This article aims to broaden the scope of language teacher identity research by investigating the emotional demands on teachers-in-training and nonnative English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) in particular. We examined how our focal NNEST participant, Puja, was confronted with and successfully negotiated numerous emotional challenges in her first…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Masters Programs
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Zoshak, Rebecca – Language Teaching Research, 2016
During my third semester as a student pursuing a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)--which was also my second semester as an ESL teacher--I was encouraged by a professor of a graduate seminar to think outside the box about professional development (PD). After all, inquiry-based approaches to PD and teacher education emphasize…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sanchez, Sabrina R.; Roegman, Rachel; Goodwin, A. Lin – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC) is an 18-month program that prepares teachers for high-needs schools in New York City in two areas: teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and teaching students with disabilities. Student teachers, called residents, spend a year working with a mentor teacher. Mentors play three roles:…
Descriptors: Mentors, Professional Development, Role Perception, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Howard, Kathryn – CATESOL Journal, 2015
TESOL programs and courses around the world are increasingly offered partly or wholly online. Online instruction offers both new affordances and distinct challenges for effective instruction, particularly when it comes to supervising fieldwork. This article compares 2 distinct online formats for student reflections on their tutoring experiences in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Tutoring
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Nami, Fatemeh; Marandi, S. Susan; Sotoudehnama, Elaheh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
Despite the abundance of research on the potential of lesson study for promoting teachers' professional growth through practice and collaboration, little is known on how language teachers perceive this strategy for their computer assisted language learning (CALL) professional development. In an attempt to contribute to this research base, this…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Trent, John – Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This article reports on a qualitative study that investigated the identity construction experiences of one group of beginning English language teacher educators in Hong Kong. Drawing upon a theoretical framework that incorporates both identity-in-practice and identity-in-discourse, and using in-depth interviews, a narrative approach was adopted to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Vinogradov, Patsy – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2012
When adult ESL (English as a Second Language) learners enter our classrooms with little or no first language literacy, their instructors teach them to read for the first time in an unfamiliar language. It is a tremendous task, and the context for teaching "adult emergent readers" is complex. This complexity is coupled with a growing, but still…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tatzl, Dietmar – TESOL Journal, 2013
This microethnographic case study discusses the effects of translating and revising documents for an English-medium master of science in engineering programme in terms of workload and value for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teacher development, integration, and enculturation. During the changeover from the diploma to bachelor-master…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Language Teachers, Ethnography, Case Studies
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Baecher, Laura; Knoll, Marcia; Patti, Janet – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
Preparing school administrators to promote effective instruction of English language learners (ELLs) is an important dimension of today's educational leadership programs, requiring innovative program activities. This study explores school leadership candidates' use of an observation tool targeted to ELL instruction that incorporated guided video…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Leaders, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Lan, Yu-Ju; Chang, Kuo-En; Chen, Nian-Shing – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
In response to the need to cultivate pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers' information and communication technology (ICT) competency in online synchronous environments, this research adopted a three-stage cyclical model named "cooperation-based cognition, action, and reflection" (CoCAR). The model was implemented in an 18-week…
Descriptors: Internet, Reflection, Second Languages, Teaching Skills
Tai, Shu-Ju – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As researchers in the CALL teacher education field noted, teachers play the pivotal role in the language learning classrooms because they are the gate keepers who decide whether technology or CALL has a place in their teaching, and they select technology to support their teaching, which determines what CALL activities language learners are exposed…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Technological Literacy, Workshops, Teacher Education
Childs, Sharon S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Long before deciding to become second language (L2) teachers, novice teachers have subconsciously developed conceptions of teaching cultivated by their experiences as learners in both general and language education classrooms. This "apprenticeship of observation" (Lortie, 1975) can foster deeply held beliefs about teaching that are carried with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction
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Cammarata, Laurent; Tedick, Diane J. – Modern Language Journal, 2012
Research on immersion teaching has consistently shown that immersion teachers tend to focus on subject matter content at the expense of language teaching. The response to that research has often entailed suggestions for teachers on how better to integrate language and content in their instruction. However, missing from the discussion are rich…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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