ABSTRACT
This volume takes a holistic view of the current trends and challenges in quality and quality assurance in TESOL and teacher education. Bringing together top scholars in the field from all over the world, the text features invaluable international perspectives with the common objective of improving the quality in TESOL and teacher education in constantly changing and challenging educational contexts globally.
Grouped into four wide-ranging, thematic sections – on multilingualism, diversity, teacher education, and future challenges – the book addresses new obstacles faced by educational professionals in today’s rapidly changing educational landscape by offering alternatives to quantitative targets. Chapter authors cover a range of contexts and timely issues, including technology in the classroom, culturally relevant teaching, teaching for continuous improvement, professional development, and monitoring and evaluating quality.
Providing a forum of discussion on the intricacies, complexities, and challenges related to the urgent question of quality in the field, this book is a must-read for prospective ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|48 pages
Quality in TESOL Education in a Globalized Multilingual World
chapter 1|9 pages
Quality Language Education in a Multilingual World
chapter 3|10 pages
Policy and Ideology in ELT
chapter 4|10 pages
Sustainability of Quality in TESOL Education
section Section II|108 pages
Quality in Diversity in TESOL Education
chapter 7|9 pages
Quality in Language Learning
chapter 8|10 pages
Quality of Teacher Talk in TESOL Classrooms
chapter 15|9 pages
Quality Language Education for Diversity and Inclusion
section Section III|91 pages
Quality Teachers for Quality Education
chapter 17|12 pages
Quality Education Begins with Teachers
chapter 18|9 pages
Teacher Identity and Quality Teaching
chapter 19|9 pages
Professional Competency Profiles for Quality Teaching in TESOL
chapter 20|10 pages
The Quality of Emotional Scaffolding in ELT
chapter 23|10 pages
Quality Teacher Educators = Quality Teachers?
chapter 25|10 pages
Monitoring and Evaluating the Quality of Online TESOL Teacher Education Courses
section Section IV|12 pages
Looking Back and Ahead