English Language Teacher Education in Changing Times : Perspectives, Strategies, and New Ways of Teaching and Learning

This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of educating teachers and teaching second language learners in challenging circumstances around the world and how these innovations can transform education going forward into the future.

Paving the way for a revitalized profession, this book is essential reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars, graduate students, and professors.

Liz England presents frequently on TESOL career development at TESOL conferences worldwide and has led both pre- and in-service professional development projects for language teachers in universities, public and private K-12 schools, and workplace settings in the United States and worldwide. She was previously Professor and Chair of TESOL at Shenandoah University, U.S.A.

Lía D. Kamhi-Stein is a Professor and Coordinator of the MA in TESOL Program at California State University, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Lía has published extensively and, in recognition of her work as a teacher educator, she has received several teaching awards. She is originally from Argentina, where she was an EFL learner, teacher, and program administrator.

Georgios Kormpas is the Director of Teaching and Director of the Center of Executive Education at Al Yamamah University, Saudi Arabia. He also teaches at the online MA TESOL Program at the University of Staffordshire, UK.