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Direct linkTabitha Kidwell – TESOL Journal, 2025
Professionalism for language teacher trainers and teacher educators would require purposeful preparation, induction, and support to develop the knowledge base necessary to foster teachers' development. This study seeks to learn more about the current state of TESOL teacher trainers' professional development in the United States, including their…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Second Language Instruction
Maria Halkias – Schools: Studies in Education, 2025
This autobiographical article explores the evolving expertise along the journey of an assistant professor in English as a second language and bilingual education. This educator began as a preschool teacher, then became a reading specialist, and is now working at a university, and she reflects on the challenges and rewards of understanding how…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Download full textMeskill, Carla; Anthony, Natasha; Sadykova, Gulnara – Online Learning, 2022
At this moment, fully online language courses are being taught all around the globe. In addition, blended courses offer an integration of online and live instructional experiences. This study examines who is instructing online language courses and what they point to as additive and advantageous to their online language teaching development. We set…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Second Language Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Yan, Chunmei; He, Chuanjun; Guo, Xinjie; Wang, Jianyang – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Professional development of teacher educators has received growing attention in recent years owing to their important role in preparing teachers for schools and universities, however, female-dominated mid-career EFL teacher educators in regional teacher education universities remain underexplored. This study examined 18 female experienced teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Faculty, English (Second Language)
Rosmaladewi; Abduh, Amirullah; Basri, Muhammad – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The paper aims to depict lecturers' experiences on the professional development programs in three polytechnics. The study used a qualitative descriptive study employing nine lecturers of English teaching in three different polytechnics. The study finds that lecturers believe that professional development programs as a means for them to improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Mak, Barley; Pun, Shuk-Han – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
This ethnographic study-cum-action research documents the cultivation of a community of practice for sustainable professional development among a group of 18 teachers of English as second language in Hong Kong through a series of planned efforts over 10?months. By juxtaposing the theory-driven planned efforts and the spontaneous actions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Faculty Development
Nyman, Tarja – Teacher Development, 2014
Focusing on the working community, this article concentrates on the newly qualified foreign language teachers' (NQT) experiences and on factors that promoted or prevented the development of professional expertise at the outset of their working life. It draws on a qualitative longitudinal study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Capitelli, Sarah – Studying Teacher Education, 2015
This article looks closely at a teacher inquiry group and the dilemmas that emerged during the first year of facilitating the group. The author encountered a number of unforeseen dilemmas that challenged previous understanding of teacher inquiry, its processes, and purposes. The author moved from viewing the process of facilitation of teacher…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Barriers, Facilitators (Individuals)
Pawan, Faridah; Fan, Wenfang – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2014
This exploratory investigation of the professional development of Chinese English Language teachers (ELTs) was part of a collaboration between two teacher educators, one from the U.S. and the other from China, during the 2011-2012 academic year. We were involved in the professional development in three schools (elementary, middle and high schools)…
Descriptors: Expertise, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kendall, Cindy; Montgomery, Cherise; Rosenbusch, Marcia – Learning Languages, 2008
In order to help teachers negotiate the changing contexts of foreign language education, the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at Iowa State University began offering summer institutes in 1994. The authors were surprised at the intense interest in the institutes focused on technology. Since then the NFLRC has offered 36…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Second Languages, Educational Opportunities, Faculty Development
Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie; Sanderman, Alicia R.; Levy, Jack – National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs, 2008
In the Fall of 2007, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) established the following strategic priority: Develop policy and program recommendations to improve the professional development of English language learner…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Limited English Speaking
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
