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Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectivesreviewed by Carla Paciotto - 2005 Title: Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives Author(s): Diane J. Tedick Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ ISBN: 0805848800, Pages: 348, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Diane Tedick’s carefully edited volume Second Language Teacher Education: International Perspectives is a timely and valuable contribution to the composite and often fragmented field of second language teacher education. The volume should be recommended reading for all second language teacher educators who are involved and interested in reforming and improving second language teacher education programs. Embracing an international perspective, the volume shows the complexity of the field of second language teacher education and considers the limitations of traditional second language teacher education programs but above all provides concrete directions for reconceptualizing their theoretical foundations and reforming individual programs.
The volume’s contributions include almost all second language teacher education settings, from English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL) to foreign language, language immersion programs, and transitional bilingual and dual-language programs, at both the school and university levels, within and outside of the U.S. contexts (Australia,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices
- Learner-Centered Instruction and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences With Second Language Learners
- What Teachers Need to Know about Language
- Multicultural Education: An International Guide to Research, Policies, and Programs
- An International Perspective on National Standards
- Rethinking Teacher Education: Collaborative Responses to Uncertainty
- Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education
- Examining the Role of Critical Inquiry for Transformative Practices: Two Joint Case Studies of Multicultural Teacher Education
- The Crisis in Teacher Education: A European Concern
- Race and Ethnicity in the Teacher Education Curriculum
- Teacher Education in a Social Context
- Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition
- Artificial Intelligence in Second Language Learning. Raising Error Awareness
- How Language Proficiency Tests Mislead Us About Ability: Implications for English Language Learner Placement in Special Education
- Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change
- Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and Writing
- Intersection of Service and Learning: Research and Practice in the Second Language Classroom
- Identifying and Recruiting Language Teachers: A Research-Based Approach
- Identifying and Recruiting Language Teachers: A Research-Based Approach
- Academic Language in Second Language Learning
- Studies and Global Perspectives of Second Language Teaching and Learning
- Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening: Metacognition in Action
- Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing
- Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education
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- Carla Paciotto
Western Illinois University E-mail Author CARLA PACIOTTO is currently an Associate Professor at Western Illinois University. Her research interests include education for minority populations with an emphasis on indigenous education (Mexico) and border communities (Slovenes in Italy). She is currently carrying out a research project related to bilingual education programs for Slovenes in Italy. Her latest publications include: Paciotto, C. (2004). Language Policy, Indigenous Languages and the Village School: A Study of Bilingual Education for the Tarahumara of Northern Mexico. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 7, 6, 529 – 548.
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