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9781853595516

Mentor Development in the Education of Modern Language Teachers

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  • ISBN13:

    9781853595516

  • ISBN10:

    1853595519

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-10-17
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters

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Summary

This book investigates a number of case studies of language mentoring in action with a view to prompting readers to reflect upon their own practice as teacher educators. Recent research on mentoring, teacher effectiveness, language teaching and language teacher education is combined to provide a background to the case studies, helping to illuminate general principles and issues.

Author Biography

Carol Gray joined The University of Birmingham in 1993 after twelve years of teaching languages in a range of comprehensive, selective and special schools

Table of Contents

Glossary of Abbreviations v
Introduction: Or Why Another Book on Mentoring? 1(10)
The Context
A Local and National Context with International Implications
11(15)
What Makes a Good Language Teacher?
26(15)
Learning to be a Language Teacher
41(14)
The Intuitively Theoretical Mentor
55(16)
Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Mentoring
Introduction to Part 2
69(2)
Keeping Pace with Development Through the Weekly Meetings
71(8)
Providing Feedback
79(18)
Towards Departmental Consistency of Good Practice in Observing Student Teacher Lessons
97(25)
Focusing on the Learner
122(16)
Good Teachers Can Wear Turquoise Socks or When Good Mentoring is Simply Not Enough
138(19)
Mentors in Action
Introduction to Part 3
155(2)
Reassuring the Student Teacher That Everyone Experiences Difficulties
157(9)
Being There
166(9)
Reflective Practice and Collaboration
175(11)
Probing Theories in Practice
186(18)
A Tutor in Action
204(9)
Towards a Better Future?
Towards a Better Future?
213(8)
Bibliography 221(8)
Index 229

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