Theory and Practice in EFL Teacher Education: Bridging the Gap

✍ Scribed by Julia Hüttner (editor); Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher (editor); Susanne Reichl (editor); Barbara Schiftner (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 276
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book brings together research by experts in the field of language teacher education from a variety of contexts, with a particular focus on EFL. It addresses the dynamic relationship between theory and practice in language teacher education by considering teacher learning as a basis for the development of professionalism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Conceptualising the Issue of Theory and Practice
1. Closing the Gap, Changing the Subject
2. The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Teacher Knowledge Development
3. Moments of Practice: Teachers’ Knowledge and Interaction in the Language Classroom
Part 2: Developing Language Teachers’ Knowledge Base
4. Creating Language-Assessment Literacy: A Model for Teacher Education
5. Grammar Teaching: Theory, Practice and English Teacher Education
6. Cognitive + Communicative Grammar in Teacher Education
7. Towards a Stronger Intervention: The Role of Literature in Teacher Education
Part 3: Assisting Language Teachers’ Knowledge Construction
8. Supporting the Transfer of Innovation into Foreign-Language Classrooms: Applied Projects in In-Service Teacher Education
9. Developing Student Teachers’ ‘Pedagogical Content Knowledge’ in English for Specific Purposes: The ‘Vienna ESP Approach’
10. The EPOSTL (European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages): A Tool to Promote Reflection and Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Part 4: Addressing Established Paradigms
11. NESTs Versus Non-NESTs: Rethinking English-Language Teacher Identitie
12. Multilingualism Pedagogy: Building Bridges between Languages
Subject Index
Name Index

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