EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development
Title | EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development PDF eBook |
Author | Estela Ene |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2024-04-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 180041515X |
This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers’ unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and it focuses on ways that specific contexts create unique opportunities and constraints on what developing teachers know and do in their work. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials to build a more inclusive and comprehensive picture of L2 writing globally, enabling the book as a whole to both document and further shape pedagogical approaches to L2 writing. Readers will be able to use the unique insights contained in this book in their own classrooms and professional development activities.
Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts
Title | Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts PDF eBook |
Author | Lisya Seloni |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2019-10-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788925882 |
This book revisits second language (L2) writing teacher education by exploring the complex layers of L2 writing instruction in non-English dominant contexts (i.e. English as a foreign language contexts). It pushes the boundaries of teacher education by specifically examining the development of teacher literacy in writing in under-represented L2 writing contexts, and re-envisions L2 writing teacher education that is contextually and culturally situated, moving away from the uncritical embracement of Western-based writing pedagogies. It explores and expands on writing teacher education – how language teachers come to understand their own writing practices and instruction, and what their related experiences are in non-English dominant contexts across the globe. Chapter 4 is free to download as an open access publication. You can access it here: https://zenodo.org/record/7096127#.YymCsHbMLcs
EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development
Title | EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development PDF eBook |
Author | Betsy Gilliland Estela Ene (Sarah Henderson Lee, Tanita Saenkhum, Lisya Seloni) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
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Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language
Title | Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language PDF eBook |
Author | Huan Zhao |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2022-05-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3030999912 |
This book explores teachers’ cognitions about the teaching of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) and their teaching practice, as well as factors influencing the formation and reformation process of their cognition. Taking stock of Bakhtin’s dialogism as the theoretical framework, the authors argue that the formation and reformation of teacher cognition is a dialogic process. A systematic analysis of participating teachers’ cognition formation and re-formation process suggests the highly individual nature of teachers’ cognitions. EFL researchers and teachers, teacher educators, teacher education policymakers, university administrators and EFL textbook writers could draw on the findings of the study to provide better resources to implement the teaching of EFL writing more effectively. The study has adopted a mixed-methods approach, whose quantitative results show the patterns and differences of teacher cognition among teachers of different backgrounds and with different schooling, education and working experiences. The qualitative findings show in detail teachers' cognition formation and reformation processes and the factors contributing to such processes, revealing convergence and divergence of teachers’ stated cognitions, with a focus on the discrepancy between teacher cognition and teaching practice. These are useful lenses through which researchers and teachers will find significant implications for offering EFL writing instruction more effectively.
Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education
Title | Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Hüttner |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2011-12-22 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1847695272 |
This volume addresses the complex issues surrounding language teacher education, especially in EFL, and the development of professionalism in this field. By applying such concepts as Shulman's "pedagogical content knowledge", the development of teachers' knowledge base is investigated in a variety of settings, thus underpinning the contextual nature of teacher learning. The vital role of critical reflection at all stages of teacher development is shown to be an integral part of language teachers' knowledge constructions in areas such as pedagogical grammar, assessment and testing. The contributions shed light also on the perception and development of teacher expertise. This volume sets out to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and in so doing shows that these constructs are far from monolithic. Rather, both theory and practice are created and developed dynamically in close interrelation.
Professional Development for Language Teachers
Title | Professional Development for Language Teachers PDF eBook |
Author | Jack C. Richards |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2005-04-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 052184911X |
This much-needed text provides a coherent and strategic approach to teacher development Teacher Development for Language Teachers examines ten different approaches for facilitating professional development in language teaching: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroom observation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The introductory chapter provides a conceptual framework. All chapters contain practical examples and reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context.
Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China
Title | Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China PDF eBook |
Author | Yuhong Jiang |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2013-01-16 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1443845744 |
This book delivers a state-of-the-art survey of the issues and approaches in contemporary English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education. It examines the professional development of the teachers who taught English as a foreign language and engaged in a teacher preparation programme of reflective teaching at a university in China. Situated in the context of the reforms of English language teaching and teacher education, this book focuses on the theme of how, if at all, reflective teaching contributes to Chinese university EFL teachers’ development in thinking about English language teaching and in their own classroom practice. To date, the study of English as a foreign language teacher education and professional development mainly focused on the teaching skills and pedagogical knowledge of teachers. However, this book approaches English language teacher education from a different perspective, through an empirical exploration of the teachers’ professional development in their thinking, beliefs, values, understandings of teaching, awareness of students, and their classroom practice while engaged with reflective teaching practice at the group level and the individual level respectively. Adopting an interpretivist and constructivist epistemological paradigm, and drawing on key aspects of reflective teaching theory, the book investigates how the novice, developing, and experienced teachers differed in their views about reflective practice; how the teachers’ thinking about English language teaching transformed; how the teachers’ performance in EFL classroom practice developed; and how the teachers dealt with the changes during the period of the teacher education programme. In addition, the book provides examples of research into the ways that individuals integrate multiple levels of reflection, accommodate different types of reflection, and make them interact with each other mutually and inseparably by using a more comprehensive and multidimensional reflective teaching model. Thus the book helps to better understand teachers’ trajectory of professional growth and is a new and unique resource for exploring effective ways of language teacher education for teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers alike.