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This edited volume explores the concepts, challenges, possibilities, and implementations of competency-based instruction for developing English competencies in EFL contexts. A valuable resource for scholars, educators, graduate students, researchers, and all those who are concerned with current and the future of education.
List of contents
Section I: Theory 1. Competency-based education: A literature review and its practical considerations for EFL teacher education 2. Competency-based teacher education and sociocultural theory: Exploring connections 3. Integrating language teacher identity into competency-based language teacher education Section II: Research 4. Undergraduate EFL majors’ agency in ELT lesson designs 5. Revamping pre-service English reading instruction: The reading specialist training at an education university in Taiwan 6. Developing competency-based teacher education with school-university partnerships: A case in Taiwan 7. Developing teachers’ competencies through intercultural telecollaboration Section III: Practice 8. Impact of different intercultural telecollaborative environments on Taiwanese ELF learner’s communicative competencies 9. Preparing pre-service EFL teachers to design issue-centered English instruction 10. Integrating global competence into elementary school pre-service teacher education of English language in Taiwan 11. Developing competency-based teacher training through mind mapping for interdisciplinary school-based curricula 12. The use of telecollaboration for the development of intercultural competences in CLIL teacher education
About the author
Amber Yayin Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan. She has worked on many national projects in English language teacher education for years and published research related to language learning, English teacher education, and TPACK.
Summary
This edited volume explores the concepts, challenges, possibilities, and implementations of competency-based instruction for developing English competencies in EFL contexts. A valuable resource for scholars, educators, graduate students, researchers, and all those who are concerned with current and the future of education.
