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1 online resource |
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Issues in Teacher Education and Professional Development -- The PIBID/Letras-Inglês Project: Strengthening Teacher Education in the Amazon Region / Nilton Varela Hitotuzi, Luiz Percival Leme Britto, Maria Luiza Fernandes da Silva Pimentel -- A Contextualized Report on the Impact of Pre-Service Training on Language Teachers in Taiwan / Diane Johnson -- Collaborative and Reflective Supervision for Professional Development and ELT Innovation in a Japanese Upper Secondary School Context / Hideo Kojima -- A Study of Teacher Reflection in a Community of Practice for Professional Development / Ping Wang, Christina Gitsaki, Karen Moni -- Issues in Teacher Identity and Teacher Cognition -- Eliciting Language Teachers' Narratives of Practice for Professional Growth / Robyn Moloney, Lesley Harbon -- Professional Identity and English Language Teaching in a Discipline-Specific Context / Mimi Nahariah Azwani Mohamed, Karen Moni, Carmen Mills -- Non-native English Teachers' Cognitions about Language Pedagogy / Shigeru Sasajima -- Issues in Second Language Curriculum and Materials Development -- Exploring Discrepancies between Beliefs and Practices in ESL Curriculum and Syllabus Design / Anthea Foster, Diane Johnson -- Complexity Approach to Language Teaching and Learning: Moving from Theory to Potential Practice / Elaine Ferreira do Vale Borges -- On the Cusp of Quality Teaching and Learning of English in Rural Schools in South Africa / Muchativugwa Liberty Hove -- Bridging the Gap between General English and English for Specific Purposes at a Japanese Medical University / Minako Nakayasu -- Issues in the Second Language Classroom -- CLIL Classroom Interaction Challenges: Translanguaging and Genre as Pedagogic Tools? / Ylva Sandberg -- Students' Perception of (In)Civility toward Groupmates / Harumi Kimura -- Developing Foreign Language Identities through Autonomy-Oriented Pedagogy / Tero Korhonen -- Issues in Second Language Acquisition -- The Impact of Classroom Practices on Young Learners' Acquisition of Subject-Verb Agreement in Vietnam: A Pilot Study / Vi Thanh Son -- Vocabulary Uptake from Peppa Pig: A Case Study of Preschool EFL Learners in Greece / Thomaï Alexiou -- Measuring Child Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition through Immersion in School / James Milton, Shadan Roghani -- The Challenges in Achieving Globalization through English Language Learning in Japan: A Focus on Elementary Schools / Rie Adachi |
| Summary |
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development: Research and Practice represents a collection of selected papers from the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), which was held in August 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. The volume comprises 18 chapters presenting current research projects and discussing issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world. This collection of research papers will be of use to both new and seasoned researchers in the field o |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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Language teachers -- Training of
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Language teachers -- Training of
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gitsaki, Christina, editor.
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Alexiou, Thomaï, editor.
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| ISBN |
1443887366 |
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9781443887366 |
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