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Informationen zum Autor Ali Fuad Selvi is Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Alabama, USA. He coedited Attending to the Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education (2020) and Language Teacher Education for Global Englishes: A Practical Resource Book (2021). Ceren Kocaman is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She has worked with feminist and LGBTQ+ civil society organizations and as an instructor of Academic English prior to her current position. Klappentext This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. The book is organized around nine sections, each of which opens with theoretical discussions on how English language teaching is re-conceptualized with a critical lens, and complemented by a total of 28 practical applications chapters including practical ideas that extend and expand criticality within teacher education programs at pre- and in-service levels.Written by renowned scholars including Graham Hall, Lili Cavalheiro, and Mario López Gopar, the theoretical considerations chapters give an overview of current issues in the field, opportunities for criticality and its implications for teacher education. The practical application chapters showcase the ways in which teacher educators incorporate these critical approaches to their teacher education practices, ranging from critical and queer pedagogy to translanguaging to multilingualism, along with a critical reflection of the potentials and the challenges of this application. They are written by critically-oriented teacher educators/researchers from various parts of the world including Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey and the US, among others.With an explicit critical focus on English language teaching, this book provides a useful reference and resource for language teacher education programs around the world. Vorwort This edited volume documents how criticality and critical language teacher education are conceptualized, operationalized, and practiced in English language teacher education activities in diverse educational settings. Zusammenfassung This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts, and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. Organized into nine parts that explore different facets of English Language Teaching, each section opens with theoretical considerations chapters and features 24 practical application chapters.Written by renowned scholars including Graham Hall, Lili Cavalheiro, and Mario López Gopar, among others, the theoretical considerations chapters offer concise insights into current issues and controversies in the field, point out opportunities for criticality, and discuss implications for teacher education.Written by critically-oriented teacher educators/researchers from various parts of the world including Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA, among others, the practical application chapters exhibit various ways to incorporate critical approaches in reshaping current teacher education practices (ranging from critical and queer pedagogy to translanguaging to multilingualism) along with a critical reflection of the potentials and the challenges involved in their application. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of Tables Series Editor ForewordForeword, Peter I. De Costa (Michigan State University, USA) List of Abbreviations Part I: Introduction 1. Introducing Criticality and Critical English Language Teacher Education: Tensions, Opportunities, and Possibilities, Ali Fuad Selvi (University of Alabama, USA) and Ceren Kocaman (University of Potsdam, Germany) Part II: Teaching Methods and Methodologies 2. Be...
