1st Edition
Professional Learning and Development in Global Language Education
1. Professional Learning and Development: Issues and Considerations Section 1: Pre-Service 2. Creating Spaces for Collaborative Professional Learning through Purposeful Scaffolding and Peer Mediation 3. Preservice Professional Learning and Development for Early Childhood Education 4. “There’s No Language in PE”: Why Do I Need to Worry about Language in a Performance-Oriented Content Class? Section 2: In-Service 5. Teacher Authenticity to Live Our Values 6. Communities of Practice and Reflective Teaching in Online Learning Environments 7. Simulation Projects to Overcome Challenges: Considering Resources, Materials, Learning Management Systems, and Tools 8. Approaching EFL Teachers’ Beliefs about Written Corrective Feedback in the Tunisian Tertiary Context 9. Collaborative Dialogue in Shaping Critical Intercultural Practices in a Bilingual Public School in Brazil: An Experience Report on In-service Teacher Development Section 3: Personal and Professional Development 10. Continuing Professional Development for Experienced Language Educators and Leaders: Professional Learning in Plain Sight 11. Turning Points, Critical Moments on the Journey to Developing Teachers as Leaders: A Transnational-TESOLer’s Perspectives 12. How Teachers Can Adapt in Response to Sociocultural Change 13. Engaging in a Transnationally and Translingually Responsive Pedagogy: Deepening the Dialectic between Theory and Practice through Practitioner Research 14. Gaining and Sustaining Your Teacher Mojo: Strategies for Self-Directed Teacher Professional Learning Section 4: Professional Associations 15. Moving Forward in Professional Learning and Development 16. Professional Development Shift of ELTAs during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond 17. Teacher Association Leadership in Low Resource and Crisis Contexts in Africa: Adapting, Innovating and Repositioning as Leaders 18. Local Language Teacher Associations and Educator Professional Development and Learning: The Case of the Maryland TESOL Handbook 19. Effective and Fulfilling Teaching: How to Keep the Flame Alive
Biography
Christine Coombe, Ph.D., has a Ph.D. in Foreign and Second Language Education from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Academic City campus in the United Arab Emirates.
Luciana C. de Oliveira, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).
