ERIC Number: EJ1462204
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0015-718X
EISSN: EISSN-1944-9720
Available Date: 2025-01-27
Engaging in Transnational Ways of Teaching and Building a Community of Practice: Preservice Teachers' Experiences in an Online After-School Program
Foreign Language Annals, v58 n1 p247-268 2025
Employing the concepts of transnational funds of knowledge and community practice, this ethnographic case study examines the experiences of preservice world language teachers in a year-long teaching methods course. It focuses on an online after-school program where preservice teachers taught languages and cultures to children from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The findings illustrate how a teacher candidate from a multilingual and immigrant background drew on her transnational lived experiences and encouraged students to think beyond the boundaries of languages, cultures, and countries. Findings also show how preservice teachers in the program learned from fellow teachers' practices and built a shared repertoire of resources to engage in transnational ways of teaching language and culture. This study underscores the importance of providing clinical opportunities where preservice teachers can put theory into practice, incorporate transnational funds of knowledge that learners possess, and challenge linguistic, cultural, and geographic boundaries.
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers, Online Courses, After School Programs, Ethnography, Case Studies, Language Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Background, Second Language Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA