TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Donald
AU  - Richards,Jack C.(Croft)
TI  - Teacher Learning in Language Teaching
SN  - 9780521559072 (pbk)
AV  - P53.85 .T4 1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Language teachers
KW  - Training of
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.cambridge.org/ca/cambridgeenglish/catalog/teacher-training-development-and-research/teacher-learning-language-teaching/teacher-learning-language-teaching-paperback?isbn=9780521559072&format=PB
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