Confronting Challenges in English Language Teacher Education - Global Innovations and Opportunities

This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for last two decades.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Current Issues in Language Teacher Education: An Introduction
Part I Issues of Professional Development
Chapter 2 The Need to Warrant Attention to Chilean English Language Teacher Educators' Professional Development and Learning
Chapter 3 Between Theory and Practice: The Challenges and the Professional Development Needs of In-service English Language Teachers in Palestine
Chapter 4 Towards a Reflective Practice in Adult English Teaching as a Foreign Language in Mexico
Chapter 5 Language Teacher Innovation in Times of Change: A Roadmap for the Future in UAE Higher Education
Part II Critical Approaches to Language Teacher Education
Chapter 6 Advancing Gender Equity in University Level Foreign Language Learning in the US: The Role of the Instructor
Chapter 7 The Other Language Policy in Limbo and Being the Other Language Teacher in the Post-Conflict School Environment in Divided Cyprus
Chapter 8 Raising In-service Teachers' Ethical Awareness Through Action Research Interventions at Kuwait Public Primary Schools
Chapter 9 A Reflexive Practice Model for Continuous Critical Professional Development in Lebanon
Part III Pedagogical Issues in Language Teacher Education
Chapter 10 Exploring EFL Tunisian Teachers' Beliefs about Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) to Inform Teachers' Education Programs
Chapter 11 Critical Pedagogy in Saudi EFL Writing Classrooms: From Dreariness to Independence
Chapter 12 Differences in Emotional Vocabulary Due to the Level of Proficiency and the Age of Acquisition of the Foreign Language in Spanish Students
Chapter 13 Critical Thinking in Academic Writing: Perspectives of Pakistani University Teachers and Students
Part IV Online issues in Language Teacher Education
Chapter 14 The Significance of Online Training Courses on the Professional Development of Teachers: A Critical Study in the UAE
Chapter 15 English Language Teacher Identity in Online Teaching in Saudi Arabia
Chapter 16 Supporting EFL Teachers' Transition to Synchronous Online Teaching: The Roles of Data Literacy
Chapter 17 An Abrupt Paradigm Shift in Higher Education in Tunisia due to COVID 19
Chapter 18 COVID-19 and Language Teacher Education in Oman: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities
Epilogue
Chapter 19 Language Teacher Education: A Way Forward

About the author

Salah Troudi is Professor in TESOL and Language Education at the University of Exeter, UK.
Omid Mazandarani is Assistant Professor in TESOL and Language Education at Islamic Azad University, Iran.

Summary

This edited volume presents an inter- and multidisciplinary approach towards language teacher education, confronting the issues that have continued to pervade the field for last two decades.

Product details

• Authors: Salah (University of Exeter Troudi
• Assisted by: Omid Mazandarani (Editor), Salah Troudi (Editor), Troudi Salah (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032623245
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262324-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Routledge Research in Teacher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, EDUCATION / Professional Development, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, teacher training, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, ELT examinations & certificates, Primary & middle schools, Educational: English language & literacy, Primary and middle schools, ELT: teaching theory & methods, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies