Plenary Schedule, LTE 2009
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Abbreviations: T= Thursday, May 28; F = Friday, May 29; S = Saturday, May 30
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| DAY |
ROOM |
SESSION BEGIN |
SESSION END |
Type |
Title |
Summary |
Name |
| T |
GB |
5:00 PM |
6:30 PM |
Plenary |
Second Language Teacher Education in Times of Change |
Second language teacher education (SLTE) is affected by two factors: a rethinking of its knowledge base and instructional practices as a response to changes in our understanding of the nature of teacher learning, as well as external pressures resulting from growing demand for language teachers world wide. These factors are examined and their implications discussed for theory and practice in SLTE. |
Jack Richards |
| F |
GB |
9:15 AM |
10:15 AM |
Plenary |
The Moral Lives of Teacher Educators |
The work of preparing language teachers is not a merely technical matter. It is best conceived as a complex task with profound moral dimensions. Johnston explores the moral landscape of language teacher education and the moral dilemmas that teacher educators face in their day-to-day encounters with students and others. |
Bill Johnston |
| F |
GB |
2:00 PM |
3:00 PM |
Plenary |
A Sociocultural Perspective on Language Teacher Education |
Johnson examines the epistemological underpinnings of a sociocultural perspective on human learning and addresses the enormous potential this perspective has to reorient how the field of Second Language Teacher Education understands and supports the professional development of L2 teachers. |
Karen Johnson |
| S |
GB |
3:45 PM |
5:00 PM |
Plenary |
Teacher Cognition and Communicative Language Teaching |
Understanding the relationship between teachers' beliefs and practices is an established theme in language teaching research. Borg examines this theme with specific reference to communicative language teaching (CLT). The findings of research into what teachers say and what they do in relation to CLT will be examined and the implications of this work for language teacher education discussed. |
Simon Borg |
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