Mindful L2 teacher education : a sociocultural perspective on cultivating teachers' professional development / Karen E. Johnson, Paula R. Golombek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Karen E., author.

Golombek, Paula R., author.

Series:

ESL and applied linguistics professional series

ESL & applied linguistics professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language teachers--Training of.

Language teachers.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Taking a Vygotskian sociocultural stance, this book demonstrates the meaningful role that L2 teacher educators and L2 teacher education play in the professional development of L2 teachers through systematic, intentional, goal-directed, theorized L2 teacher education pedagogy. The message is resoundingly clear: Teacher education matters! It empirically documents the ways in which engagement in the practices of L2 teacher education shape how teachers come to think about and enact their teaching within the sociocultural contexts of their learning-to-teach experiences. Providing an insider's look at L2 teacher education pedagogy, it offers a close-up look at teacher educators who are skilled at moving L2 teachers toward more theoretically and pedagogically sound instructional practices and greater levels of professional expertise. First, the theoretical foundation and educational rationale for exploring what happens inside the practices of L2 teacher education are established. These theoretical concepts are then used to conduct microgenetic analyses of the moment-to-moment, asynchronous, and at-a-distance dialogic interactions that take place in five distinct but sometimes overlapping practices that the authors have designed, repeatedly implemented, and subsequently collected data on in their own L2 teacher education programs. Responsive mediation is positioned as the nexus of Mindful L2 Teacher Education and proposed as a psychological tool for teacher educators to both examine and inform the ways in which they design, enact, and assess the consequences of their own L2 teacher education pedagogy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Laying the Foundation for Mindful L2 Teacher Education 1

1 A Sociocultural Perspective on L2 Teacher Education 3

2 Mediation in L2 Teacher Professional Development 21

Part II Vygotsky and Vygotskian-Inspired Theoretical Concepts that Inform Responsive Mediation 37

3 Obuchenie, Perezhivanie, and Growth Points 39

4 Interthinking, the Intermental Developmental Zone, and Sociocultural Discourse Analysis 48

Part III Exploring Responsive Mediation in L2 Teacher Development 57

5 Reconceptualizing Engineering Student Participation 59

6 Reconciling One's Teaching Persona 76

7 Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge 90

8 Reimagining Teacher Identity-in-Activity 114

9 Conceptualizing Teaching in/through Reflecting on Teaching 140

Part IV Mindful L2 Teacher Education 161

10 Responsive Mediation: The Nexus of Mindful L2 Teacher Education 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138189782

1138189782

9781138189799

1138189790

OCLC:

921864250