Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education

  • Tony Wright
  • Mike Beaumont
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Table of contents

  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

Introduction

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.

Keywords

English language second language teacher education teacher learning Trainer

Editors and affiliations

  • Tony Wright
    • 1
  • Mike Beaumont
    • 2
  1. 1.University of St Mark and St JohnPlymouthUK
  2. 2.University of ManchesterUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316257
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-32318-0
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-31625-7
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