Missing a S-STEP? How self-study of teacher education practice can support the language teacher education knowledge base

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Madigan Peercy ◽  
Judy Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Self Study

Inspired by the recognition of teachers and teacher learning in the knowledge base and the calls for greater attention to the pedagogies and development of teacher educators, in this brief essay we posit that a deeper understanding of the teacher educator as scholar, as practitioner, as researcher, is critical to the LTE knowledge base.

scholarly journals The Challenges Facing the Foreign Language Teacher Educator: A Proposed Teacher Education Model for EFL

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Carol Goldfus
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Declarative Knowledge ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
The One

As a result of the multi-cultural classroom in the 21st century, language teacher educators face new challenges; for example, young learners and those with language-based difficulties. In order to respond to these evolving needs, a new professional approach that combines theoretical knowledge with practical application is proposed. This approach targets what it is that teachers should know about literacy acquisition in at least two languages - a mother tongue and, in this case, English. The contribution of this proposed model to language education is to produce a teacher with declarative knowledge and research tools on the one hand, as well as the ability to cope with a heterogeneous classroom in a multicultural society on the other. This paper also intends to show how pre-service teacher education would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach with a combination of declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge with all teaching being ‘science-based practice’.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v16i1-2.6125 NELTA 2011; 16(1-2): 1-12

scholarly journals Foreign language teacher education in psycho-pedagogical research

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-176
Author(s):  
Marianna Levrints
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The unprecedented growth in the quantity, as well as quality of publications on language teacher education supported by the domain’s increasing experiential background opens up new avenues for enhancing the effectiveness of foreign language teacher education in Ukraine. Hence, the present paper aims at analyzing and singling out recurrent research themes, defining the mainstream approaches of the field of language teacher education, which constitute the emerging theoretical foundations of the field’s knowledge base. The review of the state-of-the-art publications has enabled the specification of the following research areas, pertinent to foreign language teacher education: language teacher cognition, the knowledge base of language teachers, language teacher identity, reflection, language teacher research and action research, language teacher professionalism, the role of teacher education, effectiveness of teaching, expertise, competence, teacher development and some others. The analysis of research suggests overall proliferation of the number of studies on the problem of language teacher education during the past 30˗40 years. Nevertheless, the comparison of the volume of studies highlighting general aspects of teacher education to those specifically related to foreign/second language teacher education reveals the quantitative advantage of the former. More efforts are needed at elaborating language teacher focused issues which stem from the nature of foreign language as a discipline, the socio-cultural role of language teachers and the role of foreign language in particular. Further limitations of the field-related research base, include: 1) a rather small proportion of empirical studies, necessary to provide informed answers for important questions of language teacher education; 2) the majority of available empirical studies are small-scale and contextually limited, which excludes the possibility of generalizations; 3) the field’s overall reliance on traditions, intuition and practical experience, with little regard for theoretical foundations; 4) paucity of research that present systematic complex generalizations of the field’s knowledge base;

scholarly journals Developing Module for Entrepreneurship Based Translation and Interpreting Skills Course in English Language Teacher Education

JET ADI BUANA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Siyaswati Siyaswati ◽  
Dyah Rochmawati
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Teacher Education Department

The present study describes the development of a course module on Entrepreneurship-Based Translation and Interpretation Skills for the students of English Language Teacher Education Department. The module was inspired by empirical research findings about the knowledge base of student teachers. It was created and refined during its three-year application will be reflected upon here, including feedback collected from student evaluation sheets. In the end, the participants responded positively to the course module. The students stated that the module was interesting, relevant and valuable for their later profession. They also emphasized that they now felt more competent in the area of Translation and Interpretation Skills and entrepreneurship.

scholarly journals A Critical Teacher Education Experience in the State of Goiás, Brazil

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosane Rocha Pessoa ◽  
Maria Eugênia Sebba Ferreira de Andrade ◽  
Edilson Pimenta Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Female Teacher ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
National Network ◽  
Brazilian Government

ABSTRACT One of the Brazilian government initiatives to improve basic education was to create the National Network of Continuing Education for Teaching Professionals of Public Basic Education in 2011. Our extension program in this network was implemented in 2013 in 10 towns of the state of Goiás and counted on 21 teacher educators and 110 teacher-participants. Part of the empirical material of one of these teacher educators will be analyzed in this article, focusing on the discourses of seven female teacher-participants about their previous language teacher education experiences and about the first two months of the extension course. The qualitative discussion draws on theorizations from Critical Discourse Analysis and Teacher Education in Brazil, and shows that discourses on language teacher education, English teaching, and English were problematized.

scholarly journals The Knowledge Base for Language Teacher Education Revisited: A Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Ochieng' Ong'ondo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
English Language ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Pedagogical Reasoning

The debate on the knowledge base for teacher education (TE) in general and language teacher education in particularhas been going on for while with no unanimity on what it should entail. In this paper, I review literature on the issueof the knowledge base, specifically on language teacher education (LTE). The key question guiding this review is:What is the conceptual foundation of the knowledge base for LTE? This suggests that the debate needs to considerpedagogical reasoning as a core pillar of the knowledge base for LTE. At the centre of the concept of pedagogicalreasoning is the need for language teachers to understand the relationships between principles and procedures oflanguage teaching. While this paper focuses on English language, I believe that the issues raised are relevant to anyother second language teaching contexts since the concept of pedagogical reasoning as a basis of the knowledge basefor LTE is not limited to English Language (EL) Contexts.

Intimate Scholarship in Research: An Example From Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices Methodology

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Lynn Hamilton ◽  
Stefinee Pinnegar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Learning From Experience ◽  
Self Study

Using self-study of teaching and teacher education practices (S-STEP) research as an example, we explore intimate scholarship and the ways it captures particular lives and experiences within the educational world. To do that we define, explore, and consider how teachers and teacher educators can use this personal and vulnerable scholarship. We provide an example as evidence of ways that intimate scholarship in the form of S-STEP supports learning from experience. We assert that positioning researchers to examine what we know about teaching and being a teacher educator is profitable for the larger research conversation.

Reconceptualizing the Knowledge-Base of Language Teacher Education

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Freeman ◽  
Karen E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher

Second language teacher education: Review of recent research on practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Wright
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Learning To Teach ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Second Language Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language Teacher

Second language teacher education (SLTE) has undergone considerable change over the past 25 years. The question of how language teaching is learnt and how programmes of professional preparation can contribute to this process now elicits quite different answers. A new agenda of theory and practice has emerged as SLTE has incorporated many of the ideas and practices of reflection (Schön 1983). At the same time, it has drawn increasingly on feeder fields of research and practice such as teacher cognition and professional cultures. These have augmented, and to some extent displaced, the original roots of SLTE in Applied Linguistics and Psychology, and a new knowledge base (Freeman & Johnson 1998) has been established, contributing to the formulation of theory about language teachers' learning-to-teach, and its practices. The focus of this review is on the extent to which the new agenda has influenced SLTE practices in recent years. It examines accounts of activities teacher educators and student teachers engage in during SLTE programmes in formal learning experiences. The paper identifies a thriving practitioner research culture in SLTE but argues that much more research is required to establish the true extent to which new conceptualisations of the process of learning-to-teach second languages guides SLTE practice.

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