The Routledge Handbook Of English Language Teacher Education

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....