Second Language Teacher Learning and Student Second Language Learning

As the editors of a special issue of TESOL Quarterly devoted to language teacher education, Freeman and Johnson (1998) make a significant contribution to the debate with their key article titled “Reconceptualizing the Knowledge-Base of Teacher Education.” In this article they set out the need as they see it for a reconceptualization of the knowledge base of language teacher education, and then they suggest what the reconceptualized knowledge base would need to look like. We consider each of these points in turn, first the need to reconceptualize the knowledge base and second the postulated content of the knowledge base.