1st Edition
Confronting Challenges in English Language Teacher Education Global Innovations and Opportunities
Chapter 1 Current Issues in Language Teacher Education: An Introduction Salah Troudi
Part I Issues of Professional Development
Chapter 2 The Need to Warrant Attention to Chilean English Language Teacher Educators’ Professional Development and Learning Paulina Sepulveda-Escobar
Chapter 3 Between Theory and Practice: The Challenges and the Professional Development Needs of In-service English Language Teachers in Palestine Silvia Nassar
Chapter 4 Towards a Reflective Practice in Adult English Teaching as a Foreign Language in Mexico Elizabeth Alvarado Martínez and Leticia Morales González
Chapter 5 Language Teacher Innovation in Times of Change: A Roadmap for the Future in UAE Higher Education Lana Hiasat, Faouzi Bouslama and Christine Coombe
Part II Critical Approaches to Language Teacher Education
Chapter 6 Advancing Gender Equity in University-Level World Language Learning in the US: The Role of the Instructor Rana Raddawi, Ragy Mikhaeel and Franziska Lys
Chapter 7 The Other Language Policy in Limbo and Being the Other Language Teacher in the Post-Conflict School Environment in Divided Cyprus Afet Guney
Chapter 8 Raising In-service Teachers’ Ethical Awareness Through Action Research Interventions at Kuwait Public Primary Schools Wafaa Rashed Almulaifi
Chapter 9 A Reflexive Practice Model for Continuous Critical Professional Development in Lebanon Reine Azzi
Part III Pedagogical Issues in Language Teacher Education
Chapter 10 Exploring EFL Tunisian Teachers’ Beliefs about Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) to Inform Teachers’ Education Programs Emna Maazoun
Chapter 11 Critical Pedagogy in Saudi EFL Writing Classrooms: From Dreariness to Independence Huda Alateeq and Salah Troudi
Chapter 12 Differences in Emotional Vocabulary Due to the Level of Proficiency and the Age of Acquisition of the Foreign Language in Spanish Students María Jesús Sánchez
Chapter 13 Critical Thinking in Academic Writing: Perspectives of Pakistani University Teachers and Students Mubina Rauf
Part IV Online issues in Language Teacher Education
Chapter 14 The Significance of Online Training Courses on the Professional Development of Teachers: A Critical Study in the UAE Suchitra Verma
Chapter 15 English Language Teacher Identity in Online Teaching in Saudi Arabia Sana Alzahrani
Chapter 16 Supporting EFL Teachers’ Transition to Synchronous Online Teaching: The Roles of Data Literacy Xiaoyuan Lu, Qian Zhang and Jun Lei
Chapter 17 An Abrupt Paradigm Shift in Higher Education in Tunisia due to COVID 19 Samira Boukadi Haj Sassi
Chapter 18 COVID-19 and Language Teacher Education in Oman: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities Khadija Al Balushi
Epilogue
Chapter 19 Language Teacher Education: A Way Forward Omid Mazandarani
Biography
Salah Troudi is Professor in TESOL and Language Education at the University of Exeter, UK.
Omid Mazandarani is Assistant Professor in TESOL and Language Education at Islamic Azad University, Iran.
