Preparation of Teachers of English As an Additional Language Around the World : Research, Policy, Curriculum and Practice. This item is unavailable.Preparation of Teachers of English As an Additional Language Around the World : Research, Policy, Curriculum and Practice

This book fills a critical gap in a neglected area in current educational research: international teacher education. It focuses on the preparation of teachers of English as an additional language (EAL) in several world regions. The book consists of chapters by researchers in well\-established teacher education programs in 11 countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Turkey and the United States of America.  It takes a cross\-national, comparative approach around four major focus areas: policy, research, curriculum and practice, offering critical implications that can help improve EAL teacher education programs in different parts of the world. Teacher education is an area that has great potential for international cross\-pollination of ideas and actions, and this book represents an important first step along this road.<\/p>

Nihat Polat is Chair and Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas State University, USA. He is the author of L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Comprehensible Input Perspective (2016, Multilingual Matters).

Laura Mahalingappa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas State University, USA. She is co-author of Supporting Muslim Students: A Guide to Understanding the Diverse Issues of Today's Classrooms (2017, Rowman and Littlefield, with Terri L. Rodriguez and Nihat Polat). 

Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is a teacher educator and an associate professor of TESOL at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on teacher identity and agency. Her publications have appeared in various journals and edited volumes. She is the author of the monograph Positioning theory in applied linguistics: Research design and applications (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and co-editor of Theorizing and analyzing language teacher agency (Multilingual Matters, 2019).