Teacher Learning in Language Teaching

Part I. Research Issues in Second Language Teacher Education: 1. The Unstudied Problem: Research in learning to teach second languages Part II. Studies of Teacher Decision-Making: 2. Teacher decision-making in the adult ESL classroom 3. Starting all over again: From teaching adults to teaching beginners Part III. Narrative Studies: 4. I'm not typical: Stories of becoming a Spanish teacher 5. Learning to teach together teaching to learn together 6. The language learner's autobiography: Examining the apprenticeship of observation Part IV. Language and Discourse-Based Studies: 7. What's in a Methodology? 8. The role of collaborative dialogue in teacher education 9. Renaming experience/reconstructing practice: Developing new understandings of teaching Part V. Teacher Learning: The Preservice Experience: 10. Learning How to Teach: a case study of teachers in the RSA Cert. 11. Student foreign language teachers' knowledge growth 12. multicultural Classrooms and cultural communities of teachers Part VI. Teacher Learning: In-School Practice: 13. The vision vs. the reality: the tensions of the TESOL practicum 14. Towards reflective teaching: curriculum development and action research Part VII. Teacher Learning: Specific Teacher Education Interventions: 15. Learning how to teach ESL writing 16. When input becomes intake: tracing the sources of teachers' attitude change 17. Theorizing from practice: case studies of training ESL teachers through structural reflection.