Critical Dialogic TESOL Teacher Education - (Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education) (Paperback)

About the Book

"This edited volume showcases how teacher educators around the world engage with critical and dialogic approaches to prepare TESOL professionals. Chapters include duoethnographic accounts, critical discourse analytic approaches, and case studies from various EFL and ESL contexts such as the United States, Morocco, New Zealand, Italy, Thailand, and Turkey"--

Book Synopsis

This edited volume showcases how teacher educators around the world engage with critical and dialogic approaches to prepare TESOL professionals.

Language teachers are at the forefront of supporting the academic and social needs of increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse student populations around the globe, and preparing critical and dialogic TESOL teachers with social justice orientations is essential to helping language learners fulfil their academic and linguistic potential. Although more experienced TESOL teachers may be able to agentively implement critical and dialogic approaches to instruction, we know little about what TESOL teacher educators do to help train and prepare language teachers who can do exactly that. In this volume, TESOL educators from various contexts share their experiences on how they engage with critical and dialogic approaches to reimagine TESOL teacher education. Chapter authors engage with different aspects of critical and dialogic approaches to present their visions for reimagining curricula, pedagogies, online spaces, and the roles of students, teachers, and teacher educators.

About the Author

Fares J. Karam is Associate Professor of TESOL at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

Amanda K. Kibler is Professor in the College of Education at Oregon State University, USA.