Teacher Learning in Language Teaching / 
edited by Donald Freeman and Jack C. Richards. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1996. 
 - x, 388 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Cambridge Language Teaching Library .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>"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<br/> Research index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521559072 (pbk) 0521559073 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95016773  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages--Study and teaching.<br/>Language teachers--Training of.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P53.85  / .T4 1996