scholarly journals Teacher education

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-168

07–285Atay, Derin (Marmara U, Istanbul, Turkey; [email protected]), Teachers' professional development: Partnerships in research. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 15 pp.07–286Brandt, C. (Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; [email protected]), Allowing for practice: A critical issue in TESOL teacher preparation. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 60.4 (2006), 355–364.07–287Carless, David (U Hong Kong, China; [email protected]), Good practices in team teaching in Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. System (Elsevier) 34.3 (2006), 341–351.07–288Diab, Rula L. (American U Beirut, Lebanon; [email protected]), Teaching practices and student learning in the introductory research methods class. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 23 pp.07–289Gorsuch, Greta (Texas Tech U, USA; [email protected]), Doing language education research in a developing country. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 13 pp.07–290Hiep, Pham Hoa (U Hue, Vietnam; [email protected]), Researching the research culture in English language education in Vietnam. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 20 pp.07–291Hussin, Habsah (U Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia; [email protected]), Dimensions of questioning: A qualitative study of current classroom practice in Malaysia.TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 17 pp.07–292Kubanyiova, Magdalena (U Nottingham, UK; [email protected]), Developing a motivational teaching practice in EFL teachers in Slovakia: Challenges of promoting teacher change in EFL contexts. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 17 pp.07–293Leitch, Ruth (Queen's U, UK), Limitations of language: Developing arts-based creative narrative in stories of teachers' identities. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 12.5 (2006), 549–569.07–294Louden, William & Mary Rohl (U Western Australia, Australia; [email protected]), ‘Too many theories and not enough instruction’: Perceptions of pre-service teacher preparation for literacy teaching in Australian schools. Literacy (Blackwell) 40.2 (2006), 66–78.07–295Love, Kristina (U Melbourne, Australia) & Merle Isles, ‘Welcome to the online discussion group’: A diagnostic framework for teachers. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Australian Literacy Educators' Association) 29.3 (2006), 210–224.07–296Pani, Susmita (English Language Teaching Institute, Bhubaneswar, India; [email protected]), Teacher development through reading strategy instruction: the story of Supriya. TESL-EJ (http://www.tesl-ej.org) 10.2 (2006), 21 pp.07–297Pardo, Laura S. (Hope College, USA), The role of context in learning to teach writing: What teacher educators need to know to support beginning urban teachers. Journal of Teacher Education (Sage) 57.4 (2006), 378–394.07–298Paris, Cynthia (U Delaware, USA) & Combs, Barbara, Lived meanings: What teachers mean when they say they are learner-centered. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 12.5 (2006), 571–592.07–299Peter, Lizette (U Kansas, Lawrence, USA) & Tracy E. Hirata-Edds, Using assessment to inform instruction in Cherokee language revitalisation. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Multilingual Matters) 9.5 (2006), 643–658.07–300Rankin, Jamie (Princeton U, USA; [email protected]) & Florian Becker, Does reading the research make a difference? A case study of teacher growth in FL German. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 90.3 (2006), 353–372.07–301Søreide, Gunn Elisabeth (U Bergen, Norway), Narrative construction of teacher identity: Positioning and negotiation. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 12.5 (2006), 527–547.07–302Tin, Tan Bee (U Auckland, NZ: [email protected]), Looking at teaching through multiple lenses. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 60.3 (2006), 253–261.07–303Twiselton, Samantha (St Martin's College, Lancaster, UK; [email protected]), The problem with English: The exploration and development of student teachers' English subject knowledge in primary classrooms. Literacy (Blackwell) 40.2 (2006), 88–96.07–304Watson, Cate (U Aberdeen, UK), Narratives of practice and the construction of identity in teaching. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 12.5 (2006), 509–526.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Nafiye Cigdem Aktekin ◽  
Hatice Celebi

In this study, we direct our focus to identity construction in an English language teaching (ELT) teacher education program. We explore the teacher roles in which student teachers are struggling to position themselves comfortably and the teacher expertise domains (subject matter, didactics, and pedagogy) that they are dedicating themselves to improving. To address our research focus, we have collected reflections and survey responses from 18 student teachers in an ELT education department. Our findings indicate that ELT student teachers find it difficult to position themselves as experts in and about the English language and that they feel a need to be equipped with expertise first and foremost in the subject matter, and then in didactics, followed by pedagogy. These results imply that in ELT teacher education, certain language ideologies are still prevalent and need to be dealt with by teacher educators for transformative outcomes in education.


2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45

06–108Andrew, Michael D. (U New Hampshire, USA), Casey D. Cobb & Peter J. Giampietro, Verbal ability and teacher effectiveness. Journal of Teacher Education (Sage) 56.4 (2005), 343–354.06–109Beran, Tanya (U Calgary, Canada) & Claudio Violato, Ratings of university teacher instruction: How much do student and course characteristics really matter?Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 30.6 (2005), 593–601.06–110Cadman, Kate (U Adelaide, Australia; [email protected]), Towards a ‘pedagogy of connection’ in critical research education: A REAL story. Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Elsevier) 4.4 (2005), 353–367.06–111Francis, Dawn (James Cook U, Australia) & Louise Ingram-Starrs, The labour of learning to reflect. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 11.6 (2005), 541–553.06–112Gordon, June A. (U California at Santa Cruz, USA), The crumbling pedestal: Changing images of Japanese teachers. Journal of Teacher Education (Sage) 56.5 (2005), 459–470.06–113Green, Catherine & Rosie Tanner (IVLOS Institute of Education, Utrecht U, the Netherlands; [email protected]), Multiple intelligences and online teacher education. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 312–321.06–114Hsu, Shihkuan (National Taiwan U, Taiwan), Help-seeking behaviour of student teachers. Educational Research (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 47.3 (2005), 307–318.06–115Kolesnikova, Irina L. (St Petersburg, Russia; vkolesni@rol), English or Russian? English language teacher training and education. World Englishes (Blackwell) 24.4 (2005), 471–476.06–116Leeman, Yvonne & Guuske Ledoux (U Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Teachers on intercultural education. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 11.6 (2005), 575–589.06–117Longaker, Mark Garrett (U Texas at Austin, USA), Market rhetoric and the Ebonics debate. Written Communication (Sage) 22.4 (2005), 472–501.06–118Lovtsevich, Galina N. (Vladivostok, Russia; [email protected]), Language teachers through the looking glass: Expanding Circle teachers' discourse. World Englishes (Blackwell) 24.4 (2005), 461–469.06–119McDonald, Ria (U South Africa, South Africa) & Daniel Kasule, The monitor hypothesis and English teachers in Botswana: Problems, varieties and implications for language teacher education. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Multilingual Matters) 18.2 (2005), 188–200.06–120Orland-Barak, Lily (U of Haifa, Israel), Lost in translation: Mentors learning to participate in competing discourses of practice. Journal of Teacher Education (Sage) 56.4 (2005), 355–366.06–121Postholm, May Britt (Norwegian U Science & Technology, Norway), The teacher shaping and creating dialogues in project work. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 11.6 (2005), 519–539.06–122Poulou, Maria (U Crete, Greece), Educational psychology with teacher education. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice (Routledge/Taylor&Francis) 11.6 (2005), 555–574.06–123Shahrzad, Saif (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada), Aiming for positive washback: A case study of international teaching assistants. Language Testing (Hodder Arnold) 23.1 (2006), 1–34.06–124Siew-Lian Wong, Mary (Batu Lintang Teachers' College, Malaysia; [email protected]), Language learning strategies and self-efficacy: Investigating the relationship in Malaysia. RELC Journal (Sage) 36.3 (2005), 245–269.06–125Sifakis, Nicos C. & Areti-Maria Sougari (Hellenic Open U, Greece), Pronunciation issues and EIL pedagogy in the periphery: A survey of Greek state school teachers' beliefs. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 39.3 (2005), 467–488.06–126Yin Wa Chan, Alice (City U Hong Kong, China), Tactics employed and problems encountered by university English majors in Hong Kong in using a dictionary. Applied Language Learning (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey) 15.1 & 15.2 (2005), 1–27.


Author(s):  
Lawrence Jun Zhang ◽  
Donglan Zhang

AbstractBeginning teachers are frequently heard making observations that the knowledge and skills they have acquired on the training programmes do not come handy when they want to apply them in their real-work situations. They have also reported lacking the ability to integrate theory and practice in reality. Henceforth, teacher-educators are faced with challenges of how to proportionally balance the two strands of pivotal knowledge that are necessarily connected with teacher-education curricula in pre-service teacher preparation. One of the approaches to examining the issue is to investigate student teachers’ dialogues for knowledge-construction to uncover the interaction patterns and strategies they use in negotiating lesson objectives and processes. Against such a background, this paper reports on a study of 24 student teachers receiving training in English language teaching on the Postgraduate Diploma in Education programme at a teacher education institution in Singapore. It was intended to find out the negotiation processes in relation to lesson-planning objectives and how student teachers positioned themselves and others in the processes in the pre-service teacher-education classroom. Results show that student teachers were more concerned about surviving the first lesson than about promoting pupil learning in constructing knowledge about language teaching. The stronger peers’ dominance in the discussion process was taken for granted, suggesting that learning took place in a mutually beneficial and constructive manner and that student teachers’ willingness to cooperate and readiness to express themselves were indicative of their intention to maintain group cohesion and dynamics. These, in turn, are necessary prerequisites for student teachers to become collaborative and reflective practitioners.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Zhang ◽  
Donglan Zhang

Abstract Beginning teachers are frequently heard making observations that the knowledge and skills they have acquired on the training programmes do not come handy when they want to apply them in their real-work situations. They have also reported lacking the ability to integrate theory and practice in reality. Henceforth, teacher-educators are faced with challenges of how to balance proportionally the two strands of pivotal knowledge that are necessarily connected with teacher-education curricula in pre-service teacher preparation. One of the approaches to examining the issue is to investigate student teachers’ dialogues for knowledge-construction to uncover the interaction patterns and strategies they use in negotiating lesson objectives. Against such a background, this paper reports on a study of 24 student teachers receiving training in English language teaching on the Postgraduate Diploma in Education programme at a teacher education institute in Singapore. It was intended to find out the negotiation processes in relation to lesson-planning objectives and how student teachers positioned themselves and others in the processes in the pre-service teacher-education classroom. Results show that student teachers were more concerned about surviving the first lesson than about promoting pupil learning in constructing knowledge about language teaching. The stronger peers’ dominance in the discussion process was taken for granted, suggesting that learning took place in a mutually beneficial and constructive manner and that student teachers’ willingness to cooperate and readiness to express themselves were indicative of their intention to maintain group cohesion and dynamics. These, in turn, are necessary prerequisites for student teachers to become collaborative and reflective practitioners.


Author(s):  
Margaret Lo ◽  
Matthew Clarke

This chapter examines the implementation of a new 12-hour course on ‘New Literacies’ during the final year of a Bachelor of Education in English language education in Hong Kong. Specifically, it examines the authors’ attempts to create a community of practice around New Literacies teaching and learning. As part of this endeavour, the authors sought to embody – and to encourage their student teachers to appropriate as part of their evolving teaching selves – the ‘insider mindset’ (Lankshear & Knobel, 2006) of new literacies practices, as the authors planned and implemented the course. They hoped that experientially connecting theory and practice of New Literacies would provide affordances for teacher educators, and for student teachers, to capitalise on the powerful potential of digital technologies in order to rethink how curriculum might be implemented in ways that are more multimodal, participative, and collaborative. As the authors discuss below, their attempt encountered unanticipated challenges, reflecting the power of existing institutional structures and unarticulated assumptions. The final part of the chapter examines lessons from the authors experience that may have resonance in other contexts and explores how they might approach the challenges they encountered differently in the future.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Truong Quynh Nhue ◽  
Truong Thi My Van ◽  
Nguyen Vu Long

This article presents the results of an experimental study on the practice of extensive listening strategy (EL) for the third-year students at the Faculty of Tourism, Dalat University, when studying the course of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) “English for Tourism 2”. The students of the experimental group spent eight weeks conducting searching listening materials, listening outside the classroom independently and with their team, taking weekly listening tests designed by other teams before taking the final listening test; the results of which would be used to compare with the English listening results of the control group performing traditional listening practice activities. The results of the final listening test, survey and interview responses revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between the application of EL during the course period with the English listening competence of the students, researchers also investigated the perception of these students about the application of this listening strategy. This study implies improvements in the design for future implementations of EL, including the length of practising EL activities and the enhancement of students participation in these listening activities Keywords English for Specific Purposes (ESP); Extensive listening (EL); Listening skills References 1. Bruce, I., Introduction to EAP: Key issues and concepts, in Theory and concepts of English for academic purposes2011, Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire, UK. p. 3-14.2. Field, J., Special issue: Listening in EAP. Journal of English for academic purposes, 2011. 10(2): p. 73-78.3. Beall, M.L., et al., State of the context: Listening in education. International journal of listening, 2008. 22: p. 123-132.4. Bommelje, R., J.M. Houston, and R. Smither, Personality characteristics of effective listeners: A five factor perspective. International Journal of Listening, 2003. 17: p. 32-46.5. Conaway, M.S., Listening: Learning tool and retention agent., in Improving reading and study skills, A.S. Algier and K.W. Algier, Editors. 1982, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA. p. 51-63.6. Ridgway, T., Listening strategies - I beg your pardon? ELT Journal, 2000. 54(2): p. 179-185.7. Brown, S., Teaching listening2006, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.8. Ediger, M., Listening in the integrated curriculum. Reading Improvement, 2012. 49(1): p. 3-5.9. Richards, J.C. and R. Schmidt, Longman dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics. 3rd ed2002, Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd.10. Bruce, I., The EAP and teaching the listening skill, in Theory and concepts of English for academic purposes2011, Palgrave Macmillan: Hampshire, UK. p. 154-176.11. Flowerdew, J. and L. Miller, in Second language Listening: Theory an practice2005, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England.12. Harmer, J., Listening., in The practice of English language teaching2007, Pearson Education: Essex, England. p. 303-322.13. Thiele, A. and G. Scheibner-Herzig, Listening comprehension training in teaching english to beginners. System, 1983. 11(3): p. 277-286.14. Chang, A.C.S., Gains to L2 listeners from reading while listening vs. listening only in comprehending short stories. System, 2009. 37(4): p. 652-663.15. Brett, P., A comparative study of the effects of the use of multimedia on listening comprehension. System, 1997. 25(1): p. 39-53.16. Brown, R., Extensive listening in English as a foreign language. Language Teacher, 2007. 31: p. 15.17. Ferrato, T. and M. White, Ring the bell - It's time for EL! ETJ Journal, 2009. 20: p. 20-21.18. Siegel, J., Thoughts on L2 listening pedagogy. ELT Journal, 2011. 65(3): p. 318-321.19. Harmer, J., Teaching language skills., in The practice of English language teaching2007, Pearson Education: Essex, England. p. 265-282.20. Mayora, C.A., Extensive listening in a Colombian university: Process, product, and perceptions. HOW, 2017. 24(1): p. 101-121.21. Cohen, L., L. Manion, and K. Morrison, Tests., in Research methods in education2011, Routledge: Oxon, England. p. 476-495.22. Richards, J.C., Listening Comprehension: Approach, Design, Procedure. TESOL quarterly, 1983. 17(2): p. 219-240.23. Foddy, W. and W.H. Foddy, Constructing questions for interviews and questionnaires: Theory and practice in social research1994: Cambridge university press.24. Kiany, G.R. and E. Shiramiry, The effect of frequent dictation on the listening comprehension ability of elementary EFL learners. TESL Canada Journal, 2002. 20(1): p. 57-63.25. Harding, K. and P. Henderson, High Season2000, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.26. Walker, R. and K. Harding, in Tourism 12006, Oxford University Press: Oxford, England. p. 93.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo

In this article the author reports on a study of some English language student-teachers’ trans-formations of knowledge about language education. The question that guided the study was: How are English language student-teachers’ formative pedagogical and research experiences portrayed in a transformative and critical outlook for initial teacher education? Reflections, perceptions, and conceptions served as data and were collected by means of diaries, interviews, and degree projects or monographs. From the analysis of data, two main themes emerged: “Going Back and Forth from Utopia to Reality” and “EFL Student-Teachers as Novice Critical Researchers”. A conclusion was that the participants’ trans-formations mediated by pedagogical and research agendas represented alternatives with high levels of sensitivity towards socially associated issues in language education.


2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 251-292
Author(s):  
Tor A. Åfarli ◽  
Jarosław Jakielaszek ◽  
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka ◽  
Wiktor Pskit ◽  
Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska ◽  
...  

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