World language teacher education : transitions and challenges in the twenty-first century

The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers. This volume is an effort to share the contributors' knowledge, experience and ideas with colleagues, particularly with novice language teacher educators. The suggestions in the cha...

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Other Authors Davis, Jacqueline F. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2010]
SeriesContemporary language education (Greenwich, Conn.)
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806617289
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-465-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xxx, 323 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • When worlds collide: liberal arts and education faculty co-teaching the methods course / Manuela Wagner and Terry A. Osborn
  • Language and the power of puppets / Rikki Asher
  • Learning to plan for a focus on form in CBI: the role of teacher knowledge and teaching context / Martha Bigelow
  • Beyond vocabulary: planning for extended language production for upper elementary school world language learners / Carol Semonsky
  • Becoming designers: paradigm shifts for performance and transfer / Jennifer Eddy
  • The world languages professional portfolio: a performance-based program document aligned with national standards / Rebecca K. Fox
  • Creating an ePortfolio / Thomas T. Surprenant
  • Foreign language education in the age of Wikipedia / Manuela Wagner and Barbara Lindsey
  • Teaching heritage language speakers their own language: special challenges, special opportunities / Sandra B. Schreffler
  • Legal and practical implications for teaching students with learning disabilities / Jacqueline Davis
  • Implementing content-based instruction: the CoBaLTT framework and resource center / Diane J. Tedick and Laurent Cammarata
  • Professional development: modeling and encouraging professional dispositions development in world language teacher candidates / Jacqueline Davis.