English Language Teacher Education: Rewriting S-1 National Curriculum

Key Factors of Curriculum Innovation in Language Teacher Education

The focus of the study is to understand the factors of curriculum innovation from the perspective of Language teacher education. The overall aim of the study is to investigate Language educators’ perceptions of factors of curriculum innovation. In the theoretical framework the main focus is on discussion about different curriculum approaches for language teacher education and limiting and facil...

Language Teacher Education

Titles, we assume, are significant, and while Jon Roberts's Language Teacher Education promises a broad sweep, Michael Wallace's Action Research for Language Teachers indicates a much narrower focus. We might nevertheless expect the two to offer complementary routes (formal provision vs self-directed classroom-based enquiry) to the same end (professional development), that there would be recogn...

Second Language Teacher Education

One of the simple facts of life in the present time is that the English language skills of a good proportion of its citizenry are seen as vital if a country is to participate actively in the global economy and to have access to the information and knowledge that provide the basis for both social and economic development. Central to this enterprise are English teaching and English language teach...

ESOL ’ s growing impact on English language teaching and learning in national education projects

Teacher Education Curriculum and Its Collaborative Implementation Model: A Transformative Strategy for Teacher Education in Iran

This article engages the reader with a critical and challenging issue in teacher education domain. The issue chosen is the structure of the program which extends itself quite naturally to the issue of implementation in terms of institutions involved. The author argues that although there is no definite answer to the question of which pre-service teacher education program assures training of eff...