Author: Benjamin Rifkin
Publisher: Heinle
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book includes the following chapters: "Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Mentoring" (H. Jay Siskin, with Jim Davis); "New Paradigms, Old Practices: Disciplinary Tensions in TA Training" (Elizabeth Guthrie); "The Professional Development of Highly Experienced and Less Experienced Teachers: Meeting Diverse Needs" (Elizabeth B. Bernhardt); "Mentoring in Style: Using Style Information to Enhance Mentoring of Foreign Language Teachers" (Betty Lou Leaver and Rebecca Oxford); "Getting to Know the Face in the Mirror: Reflection in Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators" (Sangeeta Dhawan); "Meeting the Needs of International TAs in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Model for Extended Training" (Cynthia Chalupa and Anne Lair); "Training Graduate Teachers and Foreign Language Assistants in UK Universities: A Reflective Approach" (John Klapper); "Working with Lecturers and Part-Time Faculty: A Case Study of Russian in the National Capital Area" (Richard Robin); and "Language Teaching: Raising Expectations for Instructor Preparation" (Patricia R. Chaput). (VWL).
Mentoring Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Lecturers, and Adjunct Faculty
Author: Benjamin Rifkin
Publisher: Heinle
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book includes the following chapters: "Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Mentoring" (H. Jay Siskin, with Jim Davis); "New Paradigms, Old Practices: Disciplinary Tensions in TA Training" (Elizabeth Guthrie); "The Professional Development of Highly Experienced and Less Experienced Teachers: Meeting Diverse Needs" (Elizabeth B. Bernhardt); "Mentoring in Style: Using Style Information to Enhance Mentoring of Foreign Language Teachers" (Betty Lou Leaver and Rebecca Oxford); "Getting to Know the Face in the Mirror: Reflection in Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators" (Sangeeta Dhawan); "Meeting the Needs of International TAs in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Model for Extended Training" (Cynthia Chalupa and Anne Lair); "Training Graduate Teachers and Foreign Language Assistants in UK Universities: A Reflective Approach" (John Klapper); "Working with Lecturers and Part-Time Faculty: A Case Study of Russian in the National Capital Area" (Richard Robin); and "Language Teaching: Raising Expectations for Instructor Preparation" (Patricia R. Chaput). (VWL).
Publisher: Heinle
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book includes the following chapters: "Historical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Mentoring" (H. Jay Siskin, with Jim Davis); "New Paradigms, Old Practices: Disciplinary Tensions in TA Training" (Elizabeth Guthrie); "The Professional Development of Highly Experienced and Less Experienced Teachers: Meeting Diverse Needs" (Elizabeth B. Bernhardt); "Mentoring in Style: Using Style Information to Enhance Mentoring of Foreign Language Teachers" (Betty Lou Leaver and Rebecca Oxford); "Getting to Know the Face in the Mirror: Reflection in Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators" (Sangeeta Dhawan); "Meeting the Needs of International TAs in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Model for Extended Training" (Cynthia Chalupa and Anne Lair); "Training Graduate Teachers and Foreign Language Assistants in UK Universities: A Reflective Approach" (John Klapper); "Working with Lecturers and Part-Time Faculty: A Case Study of Russian in the National Capital Area" (Richard Robin); and "Language Teaching: Raising Expectations for Instructor Preparation" (Patricia R. Chaput). (VWL).
Toward Useful Program Evaluation in College Foreign Language Education
Author: John Marvin Norris
Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
ISBN: 0980045932
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume reports on innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. Each case is reported by program-internal educators, who walk readers through critical steps, from identifying evaluation uses, users, and questions, to designing methods, interpreting findings, and taking actions.
Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
ISBN: 0980045932
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume reports on innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. Each case is reported by program-internal educators, who walk readers through critical steps, from identifying evaluation uses, users, and questions, to designing methods, interpreting findings, and taking actions.
Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States
Author: Janet Swaffar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401791597
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.S. It presents the insights of individuals who have built or are in the process of building foreign language curricula during a major transition period in postsecondary institutions. The authors of this volume come from various language departments and institutional experience from across the U. S., including private and public postsecondary foreign language teachers, researchers and administrators. The chapters address issues and provide templates for curricular change at all learning levels. The five sections of this book explore: Changing Perceptions about Foreign Language Learning; The Case for a Multi-literacy FL Curriculum in Concept and Assessment Praxis; Curricular Transformations: Historical Hurdles and Faculty Heuristics; Rethinking the Graduate Curriculum; Foreign Languages' Integration into the Interdisciplinary University. “This thought-provoking and timely volume addresses the question of how historic and current disciplinary, institutional and political conditions affect curricular transformation in collegiate foreign language programs. Responding to the issues raised in the 2007 MLA Report, this collection of nine essays presents a diversity of curricular models and approaches from different theoretical perspectives focusing on the integration of language and content. The book will undoubtedly be of great interest to a broad audience, such as foreign language educators, curriculum designers, administrators, graduate students and researchers.” Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Yale College, CT, USA.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401791597
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.S. It presents the insights of individuals who have built or are in the process of building foreign language curricula during a major transition period in postsecondary institutions. The authors of this volume come from various language departments and institutional experience from across the U. S., including private and public postsecondary foreign language teachers, researchers and administrators. The chapters address issues and provide templates for curricular change at all learning levels. The five sections of this book explore: Changing Perceptions about Foreign Language Learning; The Case for a Multi-literacy FL Curriculum in Concept and Assessment Praxis; Curricular Transformations: Historical Hurdles and Faculty Heuristics; Rethinking the Graduate Curriculum; Foreign Languages' Integration into the Interdisciplinary University. “This thought-provoking and timely volume addresses the question of how historic and current disciplinary, institutional and political conditions affect curricular transformation in collegiate foreign language programs. Responding to the issues raised in the 2007 MLA Report, this collection of nine essays presents a diversity of curricular models and approaches from different theoretical perspectives focusing on the integration of language and content. The book will undoubtedly be of great interest to a broad audience, such as foreign language educators, curriculum designers, administrators, graduate students and researchers.” Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Yale College, CT, USA.
Developing Effective Part-time Teachers in Higher Education
Author: Fran Beaton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415517087
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book, drawing on the voices of part-time teachers and the expertise of those who support them, considers whole-institution strategies to promote individual and collective professional development. Amanda Gilbert from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415517087
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book, drawing on the voices of part-time teachers and the expertise of those who support them, considers whole-institution strategies to promote individual and collective professional development. Amanda Gilbert from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants
Author: Stephen Daniel Looney
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788925564
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an ‘ITA problem’, a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs’ linguistic competence and undergraduates’ and their parents’ expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788925564
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an ‘ITA problem’, a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs’ linguistic competence and undergraduates’ and their parents’ expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.
The NNEST Lens
Author: Ahmar Mahboob
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443820377
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443820377
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.
Teacher Education and Professional Development in TESOL
Author: JoAnn Crandall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317279492
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
At the forefront of research on English language teacher education and professional development, this volume presents new empirical research situated in different contexts around the world, including Canada, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Korea, Qatar, Sudan, and the U.S. It is framed by the volume editors’ insightful overview and analyses of previous and ongoing work in a variety of related domains and an epilogue by David Nunan. The chapter studies are organized around three themes: teacher identity in ESL/EFL teacher education and professional development programs, second language teacher education programs for diverse contexts, and professional development for diverse contexts. All chapters focus on the applied nature of the research and include a section on implications. To provide balance and a range of views, the volume includes both chapters reporting on empirical research funded by TIRF grant recipients and several from invited authors who are senior scholars in the field. This is the third volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English Series, co-published by Routledge and TIRF.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317279492
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
At the forefront of research on English language teacher education and professional development, this volume presents new empirical research situated in different contexts around the world, including Canada, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Korea, Qatar, Sudan, and the U.S. It is framed by the volume editors’ insightful overview and analyses of previous and ongoing work in a variety of related domains and an epilogue by David Nunan. The chapter studies are organized around three themes: teacher identity in ESL/EFL teacher education and professional development programs, second language teacher education programs for diverse contexts, and professional development for diverse contexts. All chapters focus on the applied nature of the research and include a section on implications. To provide balance and a range of views, the volume includes both chapters reporting on empirical research funded by TIRF grant recipients and several from invited authors who are senior scholars in the field. This is the third volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English Series, co-published by Routledge and TIRF.
Language and Social Justice
Author: Miguel Mantero
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1648027644
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Language and Social Justice is the fourth volume of the Readings in Language Studies series published by the International Society for Language Studies, Inc. Edited by Miguel Mantero, John L. Watzke, and Paul Chamness Miller, volume four sustains the society's mission to organize and disseminate the work of its contributing members through peer-reviewed publications. The book presents international perspectives on language and social justice in three thematic sections: culture, teaching practices & pedagogy, and policy. A resource for scholars and students, Language and Social Justice represents the latest scholarship in new and emergent areas of inquiry.
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1648027644
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Language and Social Justice is the fourth volume of the Readings in Language Studies series published by the International Society for Language Studies, Inc. Edited by Miguel Mantero, John L. Watzke, and Paul Chamness Miller, volume four sustains the society's mission to organize and disseminate the work of its contributing members through peer-reviewed publications. The book presents international perspectives on language and social justice in three thematic sections: culture, teaching practices & pedagogy, and policy. A resource for scholars and students, Language and Social Justice represents the latest scholarship in new and emergent areas of inquiry.
World Language Teacher Education
Author: Jacqueline F. Davis
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607524651
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers. This volume is an effort to share the contributors’ knowledge, experience and ideas with colleagues, particularly with novice language teacher educators. The suggestions in the chapters are primarily provided for the teaching methods course, but many can be adapted to other education courses or for professional development programs. The first section of the introduction provides a review of issues identified in teacher education including debates, accountability, and government influence over education. The second section explores teacher educators in the literature such as issues in their practice, and a focus on foreign language teacher educator practice. The third section provides a brief overview of the chapters in the book.
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607524651
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers. This volume is an effort to share the contributors’ knowledge, experience and ideas with colleagues, particularly with novice language teacher educators. The suggestions in the chapters are primarily provided for the teaching methods course, but many can be adapted to other education courses or for professional development programs. The first section of the introduction provides a review of issues identified in teacher education including debates, accountability, and government influence over education. The second section explores teacher educators in the literature such as issues in their practice, and a focus on foreign language teacher educator practice. The third section provides a brief overview of the chapters in the book.
Language Teacher Psychology
Author: Sarah Mercer
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 178309947X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
To date, the majority of work in language learning psychology has focused on the learner. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to teacher psychology. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by bringing together various strands of research into the psychology of language teachers. It consists of 19 contributions on well-established areas of teacher psychology, as well as areas that have only recently begun to be explored. This original collection, which covers a multitude of theoretical and methodological perspectives, makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of language teacher psychology as a domain of inquiry within language education.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 178309947X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
To date, the majority of work in language learning psychology has focused on the learner. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to teacher psychology. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by bringing together various strands of research into the psychology of language teachers. It consists of 19 contributions on well-established areas of teacher psychology, as well as areas that have only recently begun to be explored. This original collection, which covers a multitude of theoretical and methodological perspectives, makes a significant contribution to the emerging field of language teacher psychology as a domain of inquiry within language education.