Bartels Nat (ed.) Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

Springer, 2004. — 442 p. — (Educational Linguistics). — ISBN: 1402079052.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.Foreword ix
Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics
Researching Applied Linguistics in Language Teacher Education
Using Bulgarian Mini-Lessons in an SLA Course to Improve the KAL of American ESL Teachers
The Impact on Teachers of Language Variation as a Course Component
Integrating Language Teachers’ Discipline Knowledge in a Language Course
Applied Linguistics and Changes in Teachers’ Conceptions, Attitudes and Intentions
Constructing Theoretical Notions of L2 Writing Through Metaphor Conceptualization
What’s the Use of Linguistics? Pre-Service English Teachers’ Beliefs towards Language Use and Variation
The Effects of Training in Linguistics on Teaching: K-12 Teachers in White Mountain Apache Schools
What Teachers Say When They Write or Talk about Discourse Analysis
Relevance of Knowledge of Second Language Acquisition: An in-depth case study of a non-native EFL teacher
Investigating Teachers’ Knowledge and Knowledge Use through Teacher-Like Tasks
Knowledge about Language and the ‘Good Language Teacher’
Pre-Service ESL Teachers’ Knowledge about Language and its Transfer to Lesson Planning
What’s Phonetics Got to Do with Language Teaching? Investigating Future Teachers’ Use of Knowledge about Phonetics and Phonology
Raising Orthographic Awareness of Teachers of Chinese
Investigating Teachers’ Use of Knowledge about Language When Teaching
Realisation(s): Systemic-Functional Linguistics and the Language Classroom
Researching the Effectiveness of Professional Development in Pragmatics
Why Teachers Don’t Use Their Pragmatic Awareness
Teacher Trainees’ Explicit Knowledge of Grammar and Primary Curriculum Requirements in England
Knowledge about Language and Testing
The Complexity of Teachers’ Knowledge about Language
Experience, Knowledge about Language and Classroom Practice in Teaching Grammar
Discourse Analysis and Foreign Language Teacher Education
Storytelling into Understanding: Middle School Teachers Work with Text Analysis and Second Language Reading Pedagogy
How MA-TESOL Students Use Knowledge about Language in Teaching ESL Classes
Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education: What We Know