Early Language Learning and Teacher Education: International Research and Practice

✍ Scribed by Subhan Zein (editor); Sue Garton (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 291
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The first book to focus exclusively on language teacher education for teachers of young children

This book investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of teacher education for early language teachers. It focuses on the complexity of teacher learning, innovations in mentoring and teacher supervision, strategies in programme development and perceptions, and knowledge and assessment in early language learning teacher education.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1. Introduction to Early Language Learning and Teacher Education: International Research and Practice
2. How Teachers of Young Learners of English are Educated in East and Southeast Asia: Research-based Lessons
Part 1: The Complexity of Teacher Learning
3. Unpacking the Complexity of Learning to Teach English to Young Learners: A Narrative Inquiry
4. Imagining One’s Self as a Child and Speech Modifi cation: Implications for Teacher Education
5. Learning to Teach: Pre- service English Language Teachers’ Experience of Learning Study in Hong Kong
6. New Orthographies in the Primary Languages Classroom: A Challenge for Teacher Education
Part 2: Innovations in Mentoring and Supervision
7. Prospective TEYL Teachers and Teacher Education: A Study of Teacher Supervision
8. Mentoring Young Learner English Teachers Working on Collaborative Action Research: Implications for Professional Development Programs
9. Collaboration, Construction, Reflection: 21st Century EYL Teacher Professional Development
Part 3: Strategies in Programme Development
10. Teaching Italian Language in a Bilingual Kindergarten in Turkey: A Framework for Teacher Training
11. Developing and Evaluating a Syllabus for Pre-service Teacher Education for Japanese Primary English Teachers: Introducing Cross-Curricular Projects
Part 4: Perceptions, Knowledge and Assessment
12. Perceptions and Knowledge of Bilingualism and Bilingual Children among Early Childhood Educators in Australia: Implications for Teacher Education
13. What Educators of Young Dual Language Immersion Students Learn from a Bilingual Approach to Assessment
Conclusion
14. Early Language Learning Teacher Education: Present and Future
Index

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