Teacher Education for Languages for Specific Purposes

Teacher Education for Languages for Specific Purposes

Author: Ron Howard

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781853593635

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This work summarizes and synthesizes the substantial crime prevention literature to provide an approachable and comprehensive text for students. It sets out a critical analysis in the context of the politics of criminal justice policy.


Interrogating Privilege

Interrogating Privilege

Author: Stephanie Vandrick

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-10-23

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0472033948

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Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education. While teachers’ focus on the learning process and class goals are quite important, there is not enough attention paid to the types of privilege—or lack thereof—that individuals bring to the classroom. Through chapters that can either stand alone or be read together, with topics such as gender, age, and colonialism (the author is the daughter of missionary parents) in second language teaching, this book seeks to address the experiences of teachers, scholars, and students as “whole persons” and to observe the workings of identity and privilege in the educational setting.


English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times

English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times

Author: Liz England

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1000853543

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This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of educating teachers and teaching second language learners in challenging circumstances around the world and how these innovations can transform education going forward into the future. Paving the way for a revitalized profession, this book is essential reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars, graduate students, and professors.


International Perspectives on Motivation

International Perspectives on Motivation

Author: E. Ushioda

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1137000872

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Bringing together motivation-related practical concerns and debates from diverse international contexts and educational settings where English is learned, this book shows how locally produced insights and issues can have wider global significance, resonating with the experiences and concerns of English teachers and learners across the world.


The Role of Language Teacher Associations in Professional Development

The Role of Language Teacher Associations in Professional Development

Author: Aymen Elsheikh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-30

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 303000967X

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Providing a timely and much-needed resource on LTAs, the book helps readers recognize the importance and nature of teachers’ professional development, while also contributing to the process of educational change. In order to achieve a suitable level of educational and policy change, a research base for LTAs is called for. This book represents a step in the right direction, introducing readers to essential research on the central role of LTAs in language teachers’ development. Although pre-service and in-service education programs, to be found at government and/or private institutions, are of great value, it is impossible to prepare teachers for all the challenges they will face throughout their careers. In response, many professional associations also provide a wide range of professional development activities for their teacher members. The book will be of interest to language teachers, graduate students, teacher educators and researchers, educational leaders and policymakers, as well as teacher associations.