This book presents original research on language teacher education (LTE) activities in digital spaces, making use of a multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) approach to examine multiple datasets and bring new insights into the theory, research, and practice of second/foreign language teacher education. The author conceptualizes a model of Conversation Analytic Language Teacher Education (CALTE), proposing a new knowledge base for LTE, identifying research-informed defining features, mapping the scope of an original praxis base, and providing research evidence from the implementation of this approach in and for digital spaces. The result is an argument for wide implementation and on-going improvement of the CALTE approach, and the book will be of interest to language teacher education professionals, multimodal CA researchers, and applied linguists.

About the Author
Ufuk Balaman is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University, Turkiye. His research deals with language learning, teaching, and teacher education mainly in digital spaces.


Book Information
ISBN 9783031191299
Author Ufuk Balaman
Format Paperback
Page Count 284
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG