English as a foreign language teacher education : current perspectives and challenges / edited by Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez Agudo, Juan de Dios.

Series:

Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication 27.

Utrecht studies in language and communication (USLC) ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English language.

Languages, Modern--Study and teaching.

Languages, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The field of Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) is mainly concerned with the professional preparation of L2 teachers. In order to improve teaching in the multilingual and multicultural classroom of the 21st century, both pre- and in-service L2 teachers as well as L2 teacher educators must be prepared to meet the new challenges of education under the current circumstances, expanding their roles and responsibilities so as to face the new complex realities of language instruction. This volume explores a number of key dimensions of EFL teacher education. The sixteen chapters discuss a wide variety of issues related to second language pedagogy and SLTE. Topics discussed include the importance of SLA research; competency-based teacher education approach; classroom-based action research; SLTE models; the value and role of practicum experience abroad; the models of pronunciation teaching; multicultural awareness and competence; the influence of teachers’ cognitions, emotions and attitudes on their emerging and changing professional identities; the potential of classroom materials and technology; and CLIL and ESP teacher education. English as a foreign language teacher education: Current perspectives and challenges will be of interest to teachers-in-training, teachers, teacher educators and to those educational researchers interested in how L2 teaching is actually learned in professional preparation programmes.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Foreword

Preface

Incorporating second language acquisition research into teacher education / Juana Mª Liceras

Integrating the European portfolio in a competency-based teacher education approach / Daniel Madrid Fernández

Action research in English as a foreign language teacher training in Spain: Trainees’ perception of their development of competencies for effective teaching and a comparison with language teacher competency development in the UK / Mª del Pilar Montijano Cabrera and Kari Stunnel

Language teacher education models: New issues and challenges / Marie-Christine Deyrich and Kari Stunnel

Practicum experience in teacher education: Is experience the best teacher? / Muriel Grosbois

Teaching pronunciation in the post-EFL era: Lessons from ELF and implications for teacher education / Nicos C. Sifakis

The importance of developing multicultural awareness in ELT teacher education / Sophia Papaefthymiou-Lytra

Teacher emotion, emotional labor and teacher identity / Paul A. Schutz and Mikyoung Lee

NNS imagining a future self as teachers in bilingual education / María E. Torres-Guzmán and Patricia Martínez Álvarez

Beliefs in learning to teach: EFL student teachers’ beliefs about corrective feedback / Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo

Native or non-native? The nativeness factor from the EFL student teachers’ perspective / Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo and Ian Robinson

Teaching and learning how to plan lessons for EFL classrooms: Implementation of classroom techniques and activities / Mª Sagrario Salaberri Ramiro , Nazmi Abdul-Salam Al-Masri and Mª del Mar Sánchez Pérez

Textbook use training in EFL teacher education / Mª del Pilar Montijano Cabrera

Human drive and humanistic technologies in ELT training / Gabriele Azzaro

CLIL pedagogy in Europe: CLIL teacher education in Germany / Christina Isabel Brüning and Maja-Svea Purrmann

Challenges facing pre-service ESP teacher education: Legal and medical English / Eduarda Melo Cabrita , Isabel Ferro Mealha and Rita Queiroz de Barros

Notes on contributors / Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 09, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789401210485

9401210489

OCLC:

870637008

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210485 DOI