Multilingual Education Yearbook 2020, 1st ed. 2020
Teacher Education and Multilingual Contexts
Multilingual Education Yearbook Series

This book focuses on the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, discussing how these challenges and complexities interact in the preparation of teachers (language & content areas) in and for multilingual settings, and how they impact on educational processes, developments, and outcomes.

Teacher education in multilingual contexts is a key topic and occupies an important position in efforts to improve educational outcomes and quality for all stakeholders. It is seen as essential for competitive participation in global economic activity and for providing opportunities to enjoy the benefits of increased prosperity. Teacher education is generally expected to address both the demand for multilingualism and the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, which are important foci at policy and institutional levels. For example, the demand for quality outcomes is manifested in state-administered standards and performance cultures that regulate entry and practices, and poses ethical and pedagogic dilemmas for teachers.

This book presents high-quality empirical research on education in multilingual societies, highlighting findings that, in addition to providing descriptions of language learning, development, and use in language contact and multilingual contexts, will help shape future language education policy and practices in multilingual societies.

Chapter 1. Preparation of Teachers and Multilingual Education: Ethical, Just, and Student-focussed Practices.- Chapter 2. Critical Pre-service Intersections: Parental Engagement in EAL/D Contexts.- Chapter 3. Preparing Teachers as Multilingual Educators: Optimizing Achievement of National English Language Education Policy Objectives in China.- Chapter 4. EAL Teachers’ (un)preparedness to Implement Classroom Practice for Multiliteracies.- Chapter 5. Decolonization in the Concrete: Honoring the Expertise of Local Teachers in EFL.- Chapter 6. Language-focused Feedback and Written Communication Difficulties of Multilingual Students: Improving Teacher Preparedness.- Chapter 7. The Future for Ethnic Korean Minority Education in China: A Challenge for Teacher.- Chapter 8. English Language Teacher Education for Multilingual Singapore: Responding to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 9. Multilingualism in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL): Insights from TCSOL Teacher Education.- Chapter 10. Norms of Practices and Pre-service Teacher Education for Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms in South Africa.- Chapter 11. Teachers’ Cognitions on Motivating Language Learners in Multilingual Hong Kong.

Discusses changing policy agendas in language teacher education Explores innovations in teacher education in multilingual settings Investigates current issues in language teacher/teacher education, in particular in multilingual contexts