Contents
List of Figures and Tables xii
Thanks xv
Acknowledgements xvi
Notes on Contributors xvii
Introduction 1
1 Student Teachers’ Changing Beliefs on a Pre-service Teacher Education Course in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region 15
2 Modern Languages Initial Teacher Education in England: The Impact of School-based Training 42
3 Practical Theories of Teaching in Peripheral Contexts: Messages from Schools in Swaziland 63
4 Learning to Teach Many Languages: A Multilingual Teacher Education Programme Offered by the Wiener Volkshochschulen 87
5 ‘Inviting Eve to Taste the Apple’: Some Metaphors for the Issue of Theory in In-service Second Language Teacher Education Courses in Greece 109
6 Reframing ‘Public Lessons’ to Support English Teachers for Curriculum Change in China 126
7 Exploring Continuing Professional Development: English Teachers' Clubs in Central India 153
8 Teacher Learning through Participation in Course Evaluation: An Indian Experience 175
9 New Technologies in SLTE: A Virtual Teacher Development Experience in Tocantins, Brazil 198
10 Bringing Information and Reflection Together: A Distance Mentoring and Teacher Development Experience in South Korea 226
11 Experiencing a Change Process in ELT in West Bengal 248
12 Becoming a Trainer: The Experience of Philippine English Teachers in the Primary Innovations Project 269
Postscript 296
Author Index 299
Subject Index 303