TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Karen E.
TI  - Second language teacher education: a sociocultural perspective 
T2  - ESL & applied linguistics professional series
SN  - 0415800781
AV  - PE1128.A2 J624 2009
U1  - 428.00711 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - English teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-140) and index; 1; Defining a Sociocultural Perspective --; 2; Shifting Epistemologies in Teacher Education --; 3; Teachers as Learners of Teaching --; 4; Language as Social Practice --; 5; Teaching as Dialogic Mediation --; 6; Macro-Structures and the Second Language Teaching Profession --; 7; Inquiry-Based Approaches to Professional Development --; 8; Future Challenges for Second Language Teacher Education
N2  - "This book presents a comprehensive overview of the epistemological underpinnings of a sociocultural perspective on human learning and addresses in detail what this perspective has to offer the field of second language teacher education. Captured through five changing points of view, it argues that a sociocultural perspective on human learning changes the way we think about (1) how teachers learn to teach, (2) how teachers think about language, (3) how teachers teach second languages, (4) the broader social, cultural, and historical macro-structures that are ever present and ever changing in the second language teaching profession, and (5) what constitutes second language teacher professional development. Overall, it clearly and accessibly makes the case that a sociocultural perspective on human learning reorients how the field understands and supports the professional development of second language teachers."--Publisher's website
ER  -