Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

Nat Bartels (auth.), Nat Bartels (eds.)9781402029547, 9781402079054, 1402079052, 1402029543, 0387234519

Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education is aimed at applied linguists who are interested in understanding more about the learning of novice teachers in their classes. The 21 studies in this volume provide information on the complexity of novice teachers’ learning and use of knowledge in a variety of applied linguistics classes such as SLA, Syntax, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, L2 Reading and Writing, Testing, and Content Based Instruction. These studies were conducted in a variety of contexts, from North and South America to Europe, Asia and Australia, and look at the preparation of teachers of English, Spanish and Chinese.

The book also includes a state-of-the-art summary of research on knowledge acquisition and use which provides applied linguists with a solid basis for developing their ideas about their students’ learning and use of the knowledge presented in their classes.

Table of contents :
Researching Applied Linguistics in Language Teacher Education….Pages 1-26
Using Bulgarian Mini-Lessons in an SLA Course to Improve the KAL of American ESL Teachers….Pages 27-41
The Impact on Teachers of Language Variation as a Course Component….Pages 43-58
Integrating Language Teachers’ Discipline Knowledge in a Language Course….Pages 59-78
Constructing Theoretical Notions of L2 Writing Through Metaphor Conceptualization….Pages 79-90
What’s the Use of Linguistics? Pre-Service English Teachers’ Beliefs towards Language Use and Variation….Pages 91-102
The Effects of Training in Linguistics on Teaching: K-12 Teachers in White Mountain Apache Schools….Pages 103-118
What Teachers Say When they Write or Talk about Discourse Analysis….Pages 119-134
Relevance of Knowledge of Second Language Acquisition….Pages 135-157
Knowledge about Language and the ‘Good Language Teacher’….Pages 159-178
Pre-Service ESL Teachers’ Knowledge about Language and its Transfer to Lesson Planning….Pages 179-200
What’s Phonetics Got to Do with Language Teaching?….Pages 201-220
Raising Orthographic Awareness of Teachers of Chinese….Pages 221-234
Realisation(s): Systemic-Functional Linguistics and the Language Classroom….Pages 235-259
Researching the Effectiveness of Professional Development in Pragmatics….Pages 261-279
Why Teachers Don’t Use Their Pragmatic Awareness….Pages 281-293
Teacher Trainees’ Explicit Knowledge of Grammar and Primary Curriculum Requirements in England….Pages 295-312
Knowledge about Language and Testing….Pages 313-324
Experience, Knowledge about Language and Classroom Practice in Teaching Grammar….Pages 325-340
Discourse Analysis and Foreign Language Teacher Education….Pages 341-363
Storytelling into Understanding….Pages 365-386
How MA-TESOL Students Use Knowledge about Language in Teaching ESL Classes….Pages 387-403
Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education: What We Know….Pages 405-424