Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching
Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching presents a model of transformative, empowering, and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers for implementing Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT).
GELTās importance to learnersā needs for communication in the globalised world means that it receives tremendous interest from language teacher educators worldwide, underlining the risks posed by gaps in teachersā knowledge of how to implement it. This book fills in those gaps, offering accessible theoretical foundations and practical examples drawn from the successful work of the M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Global Language (TEGL) at Burapha University, Thailand.
Through critically oriented frameworks, the TEGL programme equips in-service English teachers with a critical lens to examine their current practices, challenge the sociocultural and educational backgrounds that teachers bring into teacher education, and empower them in transforming their classroom practices to align with the GELT paradigm.
The book highlights how the global spread of English impacts language teacher education, discusses the theoretical foundations underlying the design of teacher education for GELT, addresses the knowledge base needed for preparing teachers to use GELT, and examines the applications of teacher education for GELT. It is vital reading for graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers in language teacher education and beyond.
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Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching presents a model of transformative, empowering, and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers for implementing Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT).
GELTās importance to learnersā needs for communication in the globalised world means that it receives tremendous interest from language teacher educators worldwide, underlining the risks posed by gaps in teachersā knowledge of how to implement it. This book fills in those gaps, offering accessible theoretical foundations and practical examples drawn from the successful work of the M.Ed. in Teaching English as a Global Language (TEGL) at Burapha University, Thailand.
Through critically oriented frameworks, the TEGL programme equips in-service English teachers with a critical lens to examine their current practices, challenge the sociocultural and educational backgrounds that teachers bring into teacher education, and empower them in transforming their classroom practices to align with the GELT paradigm.
The book highlights how the global spread of English impacts language teacher education, discusses the theoretical foundations underlying the design of teacher education for GELT, addresses the knowledge base needed for preparing teachers to use GELT, and examines the applications of teacher education for GELT. It is vital reading for graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers in language teacher education and beyond.
