Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education

This book brings together the voices of teacher educators working in different national and educational settings. It Covers themes such as change in teacher education practices, the influences of context on practice, and of interculturality, to provide rich insights into the processes and effects of second language teacher education. Edited By Tony Wright and Mike Beaumont Introduction 1. Student Teachers' Changing Beliefs on a Pre-service Teacher Education Course in Hong Kong; Icy Lee 2. Modern Languages Initial Teacher Education in England: The Impact of School-based Training; Gee Macrory 3. Practical Theories of Teaching in Peripheral Contexts: Messages from Schools in Swaziland; Sikelela Dlamini 4. Learning to Teach Many Languages: A Multilingual Teacher Education Programme Offered by the Wiener Volkshochschulen; Thomas Fritz 5. 'Inviting Eve to Taste the Apple': Some Metaphors for the Issue of Theory in In-service Second Language Teacher Education Courses in Greece; Eleni Manolopoulou-Sergi 6. Reframing 'Public Lessons' to Support English Teachers for Curriculum Change in China; Qiang Wang 7. Exploring Continuing Professional Development: English Teachers' Clubs in Central India; Amol Padwad and; Krishna Dixit 8. Teacher Learning through Participation in Course Evaluation: an Indian Experience; Susmita Pani 9. New Technologies in SLTE: A Virtual Teacher Development Experience in Tocantins, Brazil; Chris Lima 10. Bringing Information and Reflection Together: A Distance Mentoring and Teacher Development Experience in South Korea; Kyungsuk Chang and Shelagh Rixon 11. Experiencing a Change Process in ELT in West Bengal; Kuheli Mukherjee 12. Becoming a Trainer: The Experience of Philippine English Teachers in the Primary Innovations Project; Maria Luz C. Vilches Postscript ?