Description
Providing a series of chapters, written by teacher educators in three continents, this edited volume explores the concepts, challenges, possibilities, and implementations of competency-based instruction for developing English competencies in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. Recent trends in education have emphasized the need to develop competencies that connect learning with real-life performances. This need has brought about a massive increase in the number of studies and scholarly works devoted to research into competency-based education. However, for teachers and learners of EFL, it is challenging to develop competencies for using a language that does not seem to connect with their real-life scenarios. The chapters apply the concept of competency-based instruction in different EFL contexts and are structured around three themes:
- Theory: current thoughts on theories of competency-based education
- Research: empirical research on competency-based teacher education
- Practice: integrating competency-based instruction into teacher education
This book offers examples of competency-based EFL teacher education through both research and practical applications. In addition to the innovation in competency approaches, the inclusion of language learning in virtual environments offers a valuable resource for scholars, educators, researchers, and all those concerned with current and future education.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Section I: Theory
1. Competency-based Education: A Literature Review and its Practical Considerations for EFL Teacher Education
Amber Yayin Wang and Tzyy-Yuh Maa
2. Competency-based Teacher Education and Sociocultural Theory: Exploring Connections
Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão and Patrícia Fabiana Bedran
3. Integrating Language Teacher Identity into Competency-based Language Teacher Education
Eric K. Ku and Yeu-Ting Liu
Section II: Research
4. Undergraduate EFL Majors’ Agency in ELT Lesson Designs
Chin-Wen Chien
5. Revamping Pre-service English Reading Instruction: The Reading Specialist Training at an Education University in Taiwan
Ya-Chen Chien
6. Developing Competency-based Teacher Education with School-University Partnerships: A Case in Taiwan
Amber Yayin Wang
7. Developing Teachers’ Competencies through Intercultural Telecollaboration
Martine Derivry-Plard et al.
Section III: Practice
8. Impact of Different Intercultural Telecollaborative Environments on Taiwanese ELF Learner’s Communicative Competencies
Sa-hui Fan and Martine Derivry-Plard
9. Preparing Pre-service EFL Teachers to Design Issue-centered English Instruction
I-An Chen
10. Integrating Global Competence into Elementary School Pre-service Teacher Education of English Language in Taiwan
Yilin Chen and Rae Ping Lin
11. Developing Competency-Based Teacher Training through Mind Mapping for Interdisciplinary School-based Curricula
Ai Chun Yen and Jeffrey Gamble
12. The Use of Telecollaboration for the Development of Intercultural Competences in CLIL Teacher Education
Paloma Castro Prieto
