1st Edition
Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education Perspectives on Professional Learning, Identity, and Agency
This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education.
Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses theory and practice and gives a holistic view of the changing landscape of language teacher education, accounting for the transformative power of educational practices that help teachers think and act in informed, context-specific, and learner-centred ways. It also demonstrates the importance of autonomy in language teacher education contexts specifically to foster teachers’ professional learning, identity and agency, as well as in assessing and reshaping teacher education programmes.
This book will be particularly useful to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and teacher education, modern foreign languages, and teaching and learning language research more broadly. Curriculum designers and language teacher education programme directors may also find the volume of use.
1. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in initial teacher education for autonomy
Manuel Jiménez Raya, Borja Manzano Vázquez and Flávia Vieira
2. Teacher education for autonomy: An analysis of language teacher education initiatives for learner and teacher autonomy
Borja Manzano Vázquez
3. Identity and autonomy development in learning to teach EFL: Making sense of cognitive/emotional dissonance
Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
4. Linking principle and practice in initial language teacher education for learner and teacher autonomy: The case for student teacher case writing
Manuel Jiménez Raya
5. Enhancing autonomy through inquiry in practicum settings: Insights from a narrative of practice in primary English teaching
Flávia Vieira
6. Language teacher education as a two-way autonomy development process: Student teachers and teacher educators as learners
Marcella Menegale
7. Developing collaborative teacher autonomy for learning to teach English to young learners
Yunus Emre Akbana and Kenan Dikilitaş
8. Autonomous participation in post-observation feedback discussions: Post-practicum teacher candidates as relative old-timers in an ELT methods course
Masaki Kobayashi and Emi Kobayashi
9. Becoming a learner again: Implications for autonomy teacher education
Mira Kim and Bosheng Jing
10. From university to schools: Insights from novice language teachers into teacher autonomy
Ayşegül Okay and Cem Balçıkanlı
11. Learning to learn foreign languages: Empowering pre-service EFL teachers
Larissa Dantas Rodrigues Borges and Walkyria Magno e Silva
12. The use of a self-reflective instrument for pre-service language teachers in Brazil: Discussions on autonomy, agency, and the use of digital technologies
Bruna Quartarolo Vargas, Christine Nicolaides and Junia Braga
13. Language teacher education for autonomy: Critical issues and possible pathways
Flávia Vieira, Manuel Jiménez Raya and Borja Manzano Vázquez
Biography
Manuel Jiménez Raya is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain. He works in the fields of learner and teacher autonomy and language teacher education.
Borja Manzano Vázquez is Lecturer at the Department of English and German Philology, University of Granada, Spain. He works in the fields of learner and teacher autonomy in language education and language teacher education, and bilingual education.
Flávia Vieira is Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal. She works in the fields of language teacher education, pedagogy for autonomy, and pedagogy in HE.
"Why does the nurturing of learner autonomy, essential in an increasingly unpredictable world, remain so elusive in many contexts? This illuminating volume offers a convincing way forward through teacher education case studies demonstrating the links between the theory-practice nexus and teacher autonomy – an essential element in pedagogy for autonomy. Inspirational!"
Professor Terry Lamb, University of Westminster, UK
"In this timely addition to Jiménez Raya’s & Vieira’s previous Routledge (2021) volume, the contributors (all teacher educator-researchers) present a number of experience-based ideas, linking theory and practice... With a particularly insightful focus on teacher education in general and reflective practice specifically, the multi-layered field of language teacher education for autonomy is amply covered from an internationally-diverse set of teaching contexts."
Graeme Porte, Editor, Language Teaching (CUP), Spain
