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Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing book cover

1st Edition

Language Teacher Education for a Global Society A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

By B. Kumaravadivelu Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and... Read more

Contents 

Preface 

Chapter 1: (Re)visioning Language Teacher Education  1.1  Globalizing Perspectives  1.2  Operating Principles  1.3  Challenging Priorities  1.4  Designing KARDS 

Chapter 2: Knowing  2.1. Professional knowledge  2.2. Procedural Knowledge  2.3. Personal Knowledge 

Chapter 3: Analyzing  3.1. Learner Needs  3.2. Learner Motivation  3.3. Learner Autonomy  3.4. Classroom Implications 

Chapter 4: Recognizing  4.1. Teacher Identities  4.2. Teacher Beliefs  4.3. Teacher Values  4.4. The Teaching Self 

Chapter 5: Doing  5.1. Teaching  5.2. Theorizing  5.3. Dialogizing 

Chapter 6: Seeing  6.1. Learner Perspective  6.2. Teacher Perspective  6.3. Observer Perspective  6.4. "On Seeing-that" 

Chapter 7: (Re)making a Modular Model  7.1. Models and Modules  7.2. Design and Delivery  7.3. Challenge and Change  7.4. Closings and Openings 
References 

Index

Biography

B. Kumaravadivelu is Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San Jose State University.

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