A Critical Review of Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

Derakhshan, Ali; Shakki, Farzaneh

doi:10.30465/crtls.2019.4378

Document Type : Research

Authors

Ali Derakhshan ¹
Farzaneh Shakki ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran

² PhD Student, Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language Teaching, Ali Abad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2019.4378

Abstract

There seems to be a crying necessity for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of growing economic, cultural, and educational globalization. This book introduces a state of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and transformative teachers. The main driving force for conceptualizing this modular model is to empower teachers to theorize what they practice and practice what they theorize by providing a scaffold for them to build a holistic understanding of what happens in the language classroom. Some outstanding features, encompassing meritorious objectives, comprehensive technical knowledge, expansive rigor of analysis, consolidated structure, catchy terms of reference, highly user-friendly academic texts make this book an authentic reference for postgraduate students, researchers, practicing teachers, teacher educators in pre-service as well as in-service program. However, the present model fails to take into account some important features, including emotional intelligence, multiple intelligence, social intelligence, willingness to communicate, stroke, sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic competence, technology-based needs, and ESP. More comments with regard to appearance, structure, and content are in order. Furthermore, we highlight the strengths, point to some weaknesses, and provide some suggestions.

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Main Subjects

Foreign Languages

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A Critical Review of Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

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Volume 19, Issue 6 - Serial Number 70
September 2019
Pages 109-127

A Critical Review of Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

References

References

Volume 19, Issue 6 - Serial Number 70September 2019Pages 109-127

Volume 19, Issue 6 - Serial Number 70
September 2019
Pages 109-127