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Teacher Learning in Language Teaching / edited by Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards.

Contributor(s): Freeman, Donald | Richards, Jack C. (Croft), 1943-.
Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library. Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996Edition: 1st ed.Description: x, 388 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780521559072 (pbk); 0521559073 (pbk).Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Language teachers -- Training ofOnline resources: Publisher's Website.
Contents:
"The paperback edition introduces a new field of educational research called "teacher learning," as it applies to the teaching of languages. Seventeen original articles, based on studies done in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of theory and research into teacher learning and of the role that previous experience, social context, and professional training play in the process." (Publisher's Website)
CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
Prologue: A look at uncritical stories / Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards
SECTION I: Beginnings: Starting out in a language teaching
1. The language learner's autobiography: Examining the "apprenticeship of observation" / Kathleen M. Bailey, Bret Bergthold, Belinda Braunstein, Natasha Jagodzinski Fleischman, Matthew P. Holbrook, Jennifer Tuman, Ximena Waissbluth, and Leslie J. Zambo
2. The vision versus the reality: The tensions of the TESOL practicum / Karen E. Johnson
3. Student foreign language teacher's knowledge growth / Gloria Gutierrez Almarza
4. Learning to teach together: Teaching to learn together / Anné Knezevic and Mary Scholl
5. Learning how to teach ESL writing / Amy B. M. Tsui
SECTION II: Transitions: Learning in the practice of teaching
6. "I'm not typical": Stories of becoming a Spanish teacher / Patrick R. Moran
7. Starting all over again: From teaching adults to teaching beginners / Anne Burns
8. What's in a methodology? / Polly Ulichny
9. Teacher decision making in the adult ESL classroom / Deborah Binnie Smith
SECTION III: Learning to teach: The role of language teacher education
10. Renaming experience/reconstructing practice: Developing new understandings of teaching / Donald Freeman
11. Learning how to teach in the RSA Cert / Jack C. Richards, Belinda Ho, and Karen Giblin
12. The role of collaborative dialogue in teacher education / Francis Bailey
13. Structured reflection: The role of the professional project in training ESL teachers / Michael Wallace
14. Learning to teach English in Hong Kong classrooms: Patterns of reflections / Ora Kwo
15. When input becomes intake: Tracing the sources of teachers' attitude change / Martha C. Pennington
SECTION IV: Epilogue
16. The "unstudied problem": Research on teacher learning in language teaching / Donald Freeman
Author index
Subject index
Research index
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"The paperback edition introduces a new field of educational research called "teacher learning," as it applies to the teaching of languages. Seventeen original articles, based on studies done in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of theory and research into teacher learning and of the role that previous experience, social context, and professional training play in the process." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Contributors

Preface

Prologue: A look at uncritical stories / Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards

SECTION I: Beginnings: Starting out in a language teaching

1. The language learner's autobiography: Examining the "apprenticeship of observation" / Kathleen M. Bailey, Bret Bergthold, Belinda Braunstein, Natasha Jagodzinski Fleischman, Matthew P. Holbrook, Jennifer Tuman, Ximena Waissbluth, and Leslie J. Zambo

2. The vision versus the reality: The tensions of the TESOL practicum / Karen E. Johnson

3. Student foreign language teacher's knowledge growth / Gloria Gutierrez Almarza

4. Learning to teach together: Teaching to learn together / Anné Knezevic and Mary Scholl

5. Learning how to teach ESL writing / Amy B. M. Tsui

SECTION II: Transitions: Learning in the practice of teaching

6. "I'm not typical": Stories of becoming a Spanish teacher / Patrick R. Moran

7. Starting all over again: From teaching adults to teaching beginners / Anne Burns

8. What's in a methodology? / Polly Ulichny

9. Teacher decision making in the adult ESL classroom / Deborah Binnie Smith

SECTION III: Learning to teach: The role of language teacher education

10. Renaming experience/reconstructing practice: Developing new understandings of teaching / Donald Freeman

11. Learning how to teach in the RSA Cert / Jack C. Richards, Belinda Ho, and Karen Giblin

12. The role of collaborative dialogue in teacher education / Francis Bailey

13. Structured reflection: The role of the professional project in training ESL teachers / Michael Wallace

14. Learning to teach English in Hong Kong classrooms: Patterns of reflections / Ora Kwo

15. When input becomes intake: Tracing the sources of teachers' attitude change / Martha C. Pennington

SECTION IV: Epilogue

16. The "unstudied problem": Research on teacher learning in language teaching / Donald Freeman

Author index

Subject index

Research index

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