Eachers World

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Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching

This book presents a model of transformative, empowering and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers to implement Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). GELT's importance to learners' needs for communication in the globalized world means that it receives tremendous interest from language teacher educators worldwide, underlining the risks posed by gaps in teachers' knowledge of how to implement it. This book fills in those gaps, with accessible theoretical foundations and practical examples drawn from the successful work of the M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Global Language (TEGL) at Burapha University, Thailand. Through critically oriented frameworks, the TEGL program equips in-service English teachers with a critical lens to examine their current practices, challenge the sociocultural and educational backgrounds that teachers bring into teacher education, and empower them in transforming their classroom practices to correspond with the GELT paradigm. The book highlights how the global spread of English impacts language teacher education, discusses the theoretical foundations underlying the design of teacher education for GELT, addresses the knowledge base for preparing teachers to use GELT and examines the applications of teacher education for GELT. It is vital reading for graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers in language teacher education and beyond.

Teachers and Teacher Education in Developing Countries

Teachers and their roles in developing countries are often vastly different to those of their counterparts in the developed nations. Their job must not only encompass that of teacher – but also that of community development worker, politician and agent of cultural change. These differences – added to the variety of people who become teachers in the developing world (ranging from the missionary to the Guru) present many unique problems in teacher education. First published in 1986, Teachers and Teacher Education in Developing Countries presents an in-depth survey of the issues in teacher education in the developing world, tracing the evolution of the idea of the multipurpose teacher from colonial times to the late twentieth century. The various tasks of teachers are described and the question posed as to how well they are equipped to carry them out. The author reviews the issues involved in planning and administering a national teaching force and is often critical of teacher training. Alternative structures and patterns of teacher education are described with the help of case studies.