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Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education

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Editors:
  1. Tony Wright

    1. University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK

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  2. Mike Beaumont

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Tony Wright, Mike Beaumont
    Pages 1-14

  3. Student Teachers’ Changing Beliefs on a Pre-service Teacher Education Course in Hong Kong

    • Icy Lee
    Pages 15-41

  4. Modern Languages Initial Teacher Education in England: The Impact of School-based Training

    • Gee Macrory
    Pages 42-62

  5. Practical Theories of Teaching in Peripheral Contexts: Messages from Schools in Swaziland

    • Sikelela Dlamini
    Pages 63-86

  6. Learning to Teach Many Languages: A Multilingual Teacher Education Programme Offered by the Wiener Volkshochschulen

    • Thomas Fritz
    Pages 87-108

  7. ‘Inviting Eve to Taste the Apple’: Some Metaphors for the Issue of Theory in In-service Second Language Teacher Education Courses in Greece

    • Eleni Manolopoulou-Sergi
    Pages 109-125

  8. Reframing ‘Public Lessons’ to Support English Teachers for Curriculum Change in China

    • Qiang Wang
    Pages 126-152

  9. Exploring Continuing Professional Development: English Teachers’ Clubs in Central India

    • Amol Padwad, Krishna Dixit
    Pages 153-174

  10. Teacher Learning through Participation in Course Evaluation: An Indian Experience

    • Susmita Pani
    Pages 175-197

  11. New Technologies in SLTE: A Virtual Teacher Development Experience in Tocantins, Brazil

    • Chris Lima
    Pages 198-225

  12. Bringing Information and Reflection Together: A Distance Mentoring and Teacher Development Experience in South Korea

    • Kyungsuk Chang, Shelagh Rixon
    Pages 226-247

  13. Experiencing a Change Process in ELT in West Bengal

    • Kuheli Mukherjee
    Pages 248-268

  14. Becoming a Trainer: The Experience of Philippine English Teachers in the Primary Innovations Project

    • Maria Luz C. Vilches
    Pages 269-295

  15. Postscript

    • Tony Wright, Mike Beaumont
    Pages 296-298

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 299-309
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About this book

This book brings together the voices of teacher educators working in different national and educational settings. It Covers themes such as change in teacher education practices, the influences of context on practice, and of interculturality, to provide rich insights into the processes and effects of second language teacher education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK

    Tony Wright

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Mike Beaumont

About the editors

Mike Beaumont, University of Manchester, UK Krishna Dixit, Yeshwant College of Arts, Seloo, India Kyungsuk Chang, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation Sikelela Dlamini, Pro-Learning Institute, Swaziland Thomas Fritz, Lernraum.Wien, the Viennese Volkshochschulen, Austria Icy Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chris Lima, University of Leicester, UK Gee Macrory, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Eleni Manolopoulou-Sergi, EFL Teacher and Advisor, Greece Kuheli Mukherjee, ESL Teacher, India Amol Padwad, ELT Consultant, India Susmita Pani, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India Shelagh Rixon, Independent Scholar, UK Maria Luz C. Vilches, School of Humanities at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Wang Qiang, Beijing Normal University, China Tony Wright, University of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, UK ?

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education

  • Editors: Tony Wright, Mike Beaumont

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316257

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27242-2Published: 03 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32318-0Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31625-7Published: 03 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 309

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Teaching, Linguistics, general, English

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