Language Teacher Education: The Reflective Trainer

Provides an introduction to language teacher training and development for teachers and providers in pre-service and in-service programmes. This text outlines various theories of human learning and applies them to teacher education. It suggests a framework for planning pre-service and in-service programmes. Introduction Part 1 Foundations - Overview Teachers' work How do teachers learn? What is effective teaching? Part 2 Initial teacher training: Introduction Case studies in IT Components of the IT course design Further issues in IT Part 3 INSET - Introduction Case studies Components of the INSET course design Part 4 A look ahead Glossary Index