Novice Language Teachers
Insights and Perspectives for the First Year
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2009
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-84553-402-8 (ISBN)
Description
The first year of teaching has been characterized as a type of "reality shock" for many language teachers. This may be because the ideals that novice teachers formed during teacher training/education are often replaced by the reality of school life where much of their energy has shifted to learning how to adapt and survive in a new school culture. Although the first year of teaching has been well documented in general education research, not many detailed studies outlining the experiences of language teachers in their first year of teaching have been documented in the language education literature.This is surprising because as some scholars have suggested, in order to establish an effective knowledge-base for second/foreign language teacher education, language teacher educators must have some understanding of schools and schooling and the social and cultural contexts in which learning how to teach takes place. The purpose of this collection is to discuss the challenges and influences novice language teachers face when teaching in their first years. The volume outlines several detailed case studies of the experiences second/foreign language teachers during their first year of teaching in such diverse contexts as the USA, Canada, Singapore, Cambodia, the UK, Italy, southern Europe, Hong Kong, and Japan.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-402-8 (9781845534028)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Brock University, Canada
Content
1. Insights and Perspectives for The First Year of Language Teaching (Thomas S.C. Farrell)2. Teachers' use of metaphor in making sense of the first year of teaching (Steve Mann)3. Trained for teaching high school, poached for teacher training: A case study of a Cambodian English teacher's first year of teaching in Cambodia. (Stephen Moore) 4. Learning to teach in the First Year: A Singapore Case Study (Thomas S.C. Farrell)5. Occupational socialization in the first year of teaching: perspectives from Thailand (David Hayes)6. The Transition from Teacher Education to ESL/EFL Teaching in the First Year for Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in Canada (Clea Schmidt )7. The Beliefs and Practices of Novice Teachers in Hong Kong: Change and Resistance to Change in an Asian Teaching Context (Alan W. Urmston and Martha C. Pennington)8. Teaching Post-CELTA: the interplay of novice teacher, course and context (Michela Borg)9. Ghosts on the Cupboard: Discursive Hauntings During the First Year of French Immersion Teaching in Canada (Lace Marie Brogden & Becky Page)10. From rats to language learners: The transition from the biochemistry laboratory to the language classroom in the first year of teaching (Y.L. Teresa Ting and Michael F. Watts)11. Formation of ESL Teacher Identity during the First Year: An Introspective Study (Alix Furness )12. My first year of language teaching in Japan (Yukie Iwamura)