Name: Teacher Learning in Language Teaching By Donald Freeman
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Teacher Learning in Language Teaching by Donald Freeman

This text introduces an area of educational research, teacher learning, as it applies to the teaching of languages. The paperback edition introduces a new field of educational research called teacher learning, as it applies to the teaching of languages. Seventeen original articles, based on studies done in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of theory and research into teacher learning and of the role that previous experience, social context, and professional training play in the process.

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There are a number of excellent research reports, including Karen Johnson's investigationm into TESOL practicum (Chapter 2); Gloria Gutierrez Almarza's longitudinal study of the professional development of four L2 teachers (Chapter 4); Anne BUurn's research inot the relationship between the beliefs and practices of an experienced ESL teacher (Chapter 7); and Michael Wallace's discussion of the professional project (Chapter 13)...Another positive feature of the volume is the broad focus of the 15 chapters. There are studies of teacher's and teacher education programs in both ESL and EFL settings, and in Spanish and French as foreign language programs. Also impressive is the variety of data-gathering strategies, from surbey questionnaires to classroom observations. Richard Day, TESL Report The book is well organized, highlighting key topics for each chapter...This type of organization allows readers to scan the book fairly quickly in order to locate studies of particular interest...One of the most striking aspects of this collection is its departure from traditional research and its insistence on a critical approach towards teacher education. Penn TESOL East ...this volume contains information that teacher educators need to consider seriously... Cheryl Eason, Studies in 2nd Language Acquisition

Part I. Research Issues in Second Language Teacher Education: 1. The Unstudied Problem: Research in learning to teach second languages; Part II. Studies of Teacher Decision-Making: 2. Teacher decision-making in the adult ESL classroom; 3. Starting all over again: From teaching adults to teaching beginners; Part III. Narrative Studies: 4. I'm not typical: Stories of becoming a Spanish teacher; 5. Learning to teach together; teaching to learn together; 6. The language learner's autobiography: Examining the apprenticeship of observation; Part IV. Language and Discourse-Based Studies: 7. What's in a Methodology?; 8. The role of collaborative dialogue in teacher education; 9. Renaming experience/reconstructing practice: Developing new understandings of teaching; Part V. Teacher Learning: The Preservice Experience: 10. Learning How to Teach: a case study of teachers in the RSA Cert.; 11. Student foreign language teachers' knowledge growth; 12. multicultural Classrooms and cultural communities of teachers; Part VI. Teacher Learning: In-School Practice: 13. The vision vs. the reality: the tensions of the TESOL practicum; 14. Towards reflective teaching: curriculum development and action research; Part VII. Teacher Learning: Specific Teacher Education Interventions: 15. Learning how to teach ESL writing 16. When input becomes intake: tracing the sources of teachers' attitude change; 17. Theorizing from practice: case studies of training ESL teachers through structural reflection.

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9780521559072

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Title

Teacher Learning in Language Teaching by Donald Freeman

Author

Donald Freeman

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Cambridge Language Teaching Library

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Cambridge University Press

Year published

19960223

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400

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Teacher Learning in Language Teaching Donald Freeman

Teacher Learning in Language Teaching by Donald Freeman

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