scholarly journals WhatsApp supported language teacher development: A case study in the Zataari refugee camp

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 5731-5751
Author(s):  
Gary Motteram ◽  
Susan Dawson ◽  
Nazmi Al-Masri
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Development ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Language Teacher

Symbols, Symbolism and Significance in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi: Specific Content Knowledge for Teacher Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Visvaganthie Moodley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Symbols and symbolisms across literary genres are powerful rhetoric devices used to enhance not only writers’ style, but to convey richness in meaning that transcends narrative descriptions. However, as its interpretations are context-bound, it causes anxieties for the under-proficient language teacher who, firstmost, requires deep specific content knowledge to drive instruction and enhance cognition amongst learners. Using qualitative descriptive case study, this paper aims to provide specific content knowledge by examining the literary use of symbols, symbolisms and significance in Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’, which has been prescribed as a set book for Grade 12 school-exiting learners in South Africa, for the year 2017 onwards. The paper will – by analysing arbitrary, cultural and personal symbolisms and significances, mostly through psychoanalytical lens – unravel covert meanings and messages in cultural, religious and environmental contexts whilst simultaneously showing how these are pivotal to understanding major themes in the novel.  

Mentoring as a Supportive Way for Novice Teachers in Foreign Language Teacher Development: A Case Study in an Ethnic College in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Ru Li
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
One Year

Mentoring has been explored from various perspectives under different theoretical frameworks. The situation-based mentoring brings a lot of possibilities and sustainabilities to the student teachers. Given the overview on the literature of mentoring, it can be found that the research about mentoring mainly is concerned with English-speaking countries such as US and UK and populates in general teacher education. The research in subject-specific field receives scant attention, such as in Foreign Language Teacher Development (hereafter, FLTD). Finding few reports from China, especially about the novices in ethnical colleges, the empirical study running through one year from in an ethnic college shows that mentoring is a supportive way in FLTD for supporting novices. Under the framework of sociocultural theory, we found that, in addition to improving of teaching skills, mentoring can (1) lessen novices’ stress and ‘reality shock’ in teaching and strengthen the sense of belongings; (2) facilitate novice teachers’ reflection ability and (3) foster novice teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching.

Analyzing CMS affordances through the RAT framework for online language teacher education: A case study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Smidt ◽  
James Schumann ◽  
Karen Clement ◽  
Jesse Greenleaf ◽  
Mandy Nelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher

scholarly journals Synthesis of research report of personnel: Case study on Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 578-583
Author(s):  
Rungthip Singporn ◽  
Prasart Nuangchalerm
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Development ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Production Research ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Experimental Researches

The purpose of this research was to synthesize research report of personnel in the Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University. There were 81 research reports funded by Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University between the academic years of 2012-2019 were employed. The research revealed that most of research concerning teacher development amounting to 69 researches, followed by research report of the support staff amounting to 12 researches. Most of research reports were basic research, applied research, and collaborative teaching research amounting to 55 researches, followed by production research and development of personnel that emphasized on the concept of learning based on the actual situation amounting to 11 researches. The greatest number of research was produced and published in 2018, 23 researches, and in 2019, 13 researches. They were publishing in Thai journals, total of 75 research. The utilization of research to apply for policy benefits, 75 research and for public in four research. Research methodology employed 50 operational researches, 29 quasi-experimental researches, 33 researches to studies, 25 comparative researches and 16 researches to find correlation.

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