基本説明
This innovative volume is a collection of highly personal, contextualized stories of teachers assessing their own experiences in gaining expertise as language teachers.
Full Description
This book explores teachers' understanding of the personal and professional experiences that have informed their language teaching. The intent of the paperback edition is to bring into our professional conversations teachers' “ways of knowing” – that is, teachers' understanding of the experiences that have informed their language teaching. By making teachers' ways of knowing public, open to review, and accessible to others in this profession, this text hopes to validate, in ways afforded to other forms of scholarly work, teachers' own understanding of the activity of language teaching.
Contents
1. Inquiry Into Experience: Teachers' Personal and Professional Growth, Johnson and Golombek; Part I. Inquiry into Instructional Practices; 2. And Now for Something Completely Different : Personal Meaning-Making for Secondary ESL Students...And Their Teachers, Johansen; 3. Putting Theory Into Practice: Letting My Students Learn to Read, Herndon; 4. Rewriting is More than Just Writing Again, Sackville; 5. Action for Understanding: A Study in Teacher Research with Exploratory Practice, Johnson; Part II. Inquiry into Language Learners; 6. Who Is In This Classroom With Me? House; 7. Talking at Length and Depth: Learning From Focus Group Discussions, Gibson; 8. My Learning Through Journaling: Forgiveness as a Source of Power and the Communication of Voice in the Classroom, Esbenshade; 9. Understanding Our Students' Families: The Hidden Community of International Wives, Winston and Soltman; Part III. Inquiry into Language Teachers; 10. A Tale of Names, Shi; 11. Seeking Satisfaction, Sato; 12. The Art of Drawing Theory: A Teacher's Personal and Professional Sense-Making, Robison; Part IV. Inquiry Through Professional Collaborations; 13. What I Learnt From Giving Quiet Children Space, Boshell; 14. Talking Ourselves into Understanding, Mann
