Aug 13 2010
c) Sec. Lang. Teacher Educ.
New book edited by former MA TESOL tutor, Mike Beaumont
Beaumont, M. and Wright, T. (eds.), Experiences of second language teacher education. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Rationale
It is nearly 20 years since the publication of Richards and Nunan’s (1990) collection of papers on Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE). In the interim, there has been a steady, if relatively limited, stream of SLTE publications. However, during this period, we have detected significant developments in SLTE, which deserve to be reported and theorised. We believe there is a need for a new collection which reflects the enormous range and intensity of activity in SLTE being undertaken worldwide.
This book presents a collection of chapters which reflect more fully the many facets of international SLTE activity: the wide variety of national contexts in which SLTE takes place and the different educational sectors for which teachers are prepared; the experiences of teacher educators working with languages other than English; and issues raised by the emergence of ‘non-standard’ approaches to teacher education, such as the growth of self-help groups. In all three senses, we hope to enable language teacher educators to build bridges which have not always been there, and to open new conversations about SLTE. What is proposed is not a ‘research’ collection in the ‘traditional’ academic sense, rather a theorised account of professional activity.
Richard’s contribution to this volume:
Fay, R. and Androulakis, G. (forthcoming, 2010). Differing conceptualisations of interculturality: Reflections on the experience of English and French language teacher educators in the Greek context. In M. Beaumont and T. Wright (eds.), Experiences of second language teacher education. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.