ABSTRACT
The processes of language teacher education are necessarily a broad and complex topic. In this chapter, I will confine my discussion to preparing teachers for English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching settings and filter my comments through the vision statement following. This statement guides the teacher education program we offer in our TESOL Master’s of Arts (MA) program at California Sate University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a mid-size urban, state university where I have been a faculty member for the past 15 years and currently serve as program coordinator. In our TESOL MA program, we prepare teachers to work in Kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) public school settings and to teach adults in community colleges, intensive English programs, community-based settings such as libraries, workplace or corporate settings, and, of course, those who plan to go abroad to teach EFL.
