1st Edition
English Language Teacher Education in Chile A cultural historical activity theory perspective
1: English language education in Chile and the southern cone: An Introduction 2: English language teaching and teacher education in Chile 3: Issues in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) Chapter 4: A CHAT perspective to learning to teach EFL Chapter 5: The curriculum as a mediating tool in the activity of learning to teach EFL 6: The conflicting identity of the practising EFL student/teacher in Chile 7: Learning to be a teacher of EFL in Chile in the boundaries 8: English is not enough to become competent teachers of English in Chile
Biography
Malba Barahona is an educational researcher and language educator with vast experience teaching Spanish and English as foreign languages. She has been a second-language teacher educator in Chile and Australia. Malba currently researches new collaborative approaches to more effectively support the development and capabilities of EFL pre-service teachers at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. She is the beneficiary of a research grant from the Chilean government's Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICYT).
