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The Design of Mentoring Programs

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This chapter describes the major components in the design for a formal mentoring program and covers such topics as training mentors, attributes of mentors, and mentor-mentee matching. For each section, there is a more general theoretical discussion and then a specific research-related example from an Asian context is provided, e.g., research is discussed which explores what personal attributes pre-service teachers expect from their mentors.

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Nguyen, H.T.M. (2017). The Design of Mentoring Programs. In: Models of Mentoring in Language Teacher Education. English Language Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44151-1_4

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