The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education. With an overview of historical issues, theoretical frameworks and current debates, this handbook provides unique insights into a range of teacher education contexts, focusing on key issues relating to teacher and learner priorities, language and communication, current practices, reflective practice, and research.

Key features include:

• a cross-section of current theories, practices and issues, providing readers with a resource which can be used in a variety of contexts;
• the use of data, transcripts and tasks to highlight and illustrate a range of practices, including examples of 'best practice';
• 'snapshots' of ELTE from a number of contexts taken from all around the world; and
• examples of current technological advances, contemporary thinking on reflective practice, and insights gained from recent research.

This wide-ranging and international collection of chapters has been written by leading experts in the field. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education is sure to be core reading for students, researchers and educators in applied linguistics, TESOL and language education.

About the Author

Steve Walsh is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK and visiting professor at Hong Kong University. He has been involved in English language teaching and teacher education for more than 30 years in a range of overseas contexts. His research interests include classroom discourse, teacher development and second language teacher education.

Steve Mann (Associate Professor) currently works at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He has experience in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe in both English language teaching and teacher development. Steve supervises a research group of PhD students who are investigating teachers' education and development. His research interests include action research, reflective practice, classroom discourse, and the role of video in language teacher education.

Reviews

"Finally, everything you want to know about English language teacher education is crystalized in one authoritative text. A practical guide filled with voices of wisdom and innovation, Walsh and Mann's painstakingly curated handbook will be the go-to resource for English language teacher educators around the world for many years to come."

Hansun Zhang Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

"What I like most about this thoughtfully organized handbook are the six thematic sections. The chapters are also data-based and offer tools for teachers or program administrators to do empirically-grounded professional development. Each chapter addresses common concepts for teacher educators, including criticality, reflexivity, and technology which gives the volume a cohesiveness not seen in other handbooks. Well done!"

John Hellermann, Portland State University, USA

"This important book brings together current thinking both about the knowledge and skills that English language teachers need and how they may be provided. Such an overview is timely because it highlights very clearly the challenges of implementing ELTE curriculum policy in a range of global contexts. The handbook provides a source of reference both for those responsible for planning and designing the content and process of contextually supportive teacher education provision, and for scholars interested in exploring current debates in the field more fully."

Dr Martin Wedell, University of Leeds, UK

"... cover[s] a very wide range of topics, including issues that are rarely dealt with elsewhere, providing rich evidence from the field to support practical and theoretical conclusions. In general it certainly fulfils its mission to be, as the editors claim in their introduction, 'a significant resource for ELTE and ELTE research' (p. 1)."

Penny Ur, ELT Journal, Volume 74, Issue 4, October 2020

Book Information
ISBN 9781032338293
Author Steve Walsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 644
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1190g