Language Teacher Education for a Global Society

The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic; cultural; and educational globalization. Responding to this call; this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers; exploratory researchers; and transformative teachers. The model includes five modules: Knowing; Analyzing; Recognizing; Doing; and Seeing (KARDS). Its goal is to help teachers understand: how to build a viable professional; personal and procedural knowledge-base;how to analyze learner needs; motivation and autonomy;how to recognize their own identities; beliefs and values; how to do teaching; theorizing and dialogizing; and how to see their own teaching acts from learner; teacher; and observer perspectives.Providing a scaffold for building a holistic understanding of what happens in the language classroom; this model eventually enables teachers to theorize what they practice and practice what they theorize. With its strong scholarly foundation and its supporting reflective tasks and exploratory projects; this book is immensely useful for students; practicing teachers; teacher educators; and educational researchers who are interested in exploring the complexity of language teacher education. Buy now the item at ONLY: 75.99