English Language Teacher Education: Notes on The Past And Future

• Authors: Guy Cook
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The first part of this paper considers approaches to teacher education for EFL developed during the 1960s-1990s, drawing upon two sources: the taxonomy of three approaches proposed by Wallace (1991) and personal reminiscence. It discusses each of Wallace's approaches in turn: craft, 'applied science', and reflective practice.The second part considers whether these approaches are adequate models for teacher education now. I suggest that while they are still relevant, they are also too inward looking for contemporary needs.They need to be supplemented with a more outward looking approach, in which teachers are prepared to engage with four aspects of the contemporary context: new communication technologies, the new global linguistic landscape, the relationship between English and learners' own languages, and the rival political views of English language learning as promoting either a global neoliberal agenda or a global civil society.

Keywords

EN

English Language Teaching; teacher education; new media; L1 use in language learning; civil society

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Linguaculture
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-22

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Guy Cook

• Department of Education and Professional Studies King's College London

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/lincu-2015-0011