The enhancement of autonomy in language education relies heavily on teachers' empowerment and agency as critical intellectuals and reflective practitioners. However, most teacher education programmes are still based on instrumental views of teacher development that undervalue professional experience and expertise. The authors set the ground for alternative practices by proposing and illustrating a case-based approach to language teacher education that values experiential professional learning and expands competences to promote autonomy in school.
English Teaching Professional is an international magazine for those who are actively involved in the ELT profession. It is both for teachers and teacher trainers. The articles are written by some well-known writers as well as by ordinary teachers from different countries. ETp is a perfect magazine for those who like sharing their knowledge and experience with others and for those who like incorporating others' ideas into their ownteaching.
Writing tasks like essay, coursework, term paper, research, reviews and others demand professional skills seems to be a hard work for students. Frankly speaking, the majority of students are not sufficiently prepared for writing papers of high quality. Moreover, writing an essay needs deep research work within studied subject, if a student is sure in gained skills, so definitely, he or she can try to write essay alone. However, the final proofreading it is better to trust professional editors. This book supplies 113 qualified essays with directions to make acquainted with them.
Using a wide range of professional genres such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, guidebooks and legal documents, this study focuses on the discourse of professional writing, employing analytic paradigms from systemic-functional linguistics, pragmatics, text analysis, sociology and anthropological linguistics. Kenneth Kong argues that while professions use different sets of practices, their use of language displays many universals. This is demonstrated through the analysis of data from a broad cross-section of professional settings such as medicine, law, business, mass media and engineering.
This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. Both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. The book re-imagines the language classroom in medical settings as an arena for the exploration of values and professional identity.
