BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...

The main goal of this study is to evaluate primary teacher education programs in Croatia. Prior to evaluation of the primary teacher education programs, expected primary teacher education competencies were defined. The expected teacher competencies were determined according to the goals stated in the Croatian national curriculum. In addition, international guidelines for information literacy de...

This article proposes a conceptual framework to examine the development of the teacher education system in contemporary China. Within the framework, three development periods, including the era of shifan, and the era of post-shifan, the era of professional teacher education, are investigated in terms of governance, institutional structures, and resource allocation. With the central government d...

Since the Smith-Hughes Act in the early 1900's, there has been a continuing need to prepare people who possess competence in occupational fields to teach in high schools, technical colleges, and community colleges. Most often these people begin teaching with little teacher education. They are hired first, and later receive in-service teacher education while they are teaching. Originally, most s...

Teacher-learner autonomy, by analogy with previous definitions of language learner autonomy, might be defined as the ability to develop appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes for oneself as a teacher, in cooperation with others. By focusing on the teacher as learner in this manner I do not mean to diminish the importance of ‘being free from constraints on one’s teaching’, i.e. teacher auto...

The Nature of Teacher Research Barbara Henderson, PhD, is a professor of education at San Francisco State University. She co-coordinates the MA program in Education, Early Childhood Education Concentration, and teacher graduate and credential classes. Her interests are teacher research and children’s development in cultural contexts. She is also co-editor of the online teacher research journal ...

The aim of this study is to examine the advantages of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), especially vocabulary learning of English as a foreign or second language (L2) in terms of the two strands: automatization and learner autonomy. Previous studies articulate that technology-enhanced L2 learning could bring about some positive effects. The use of technological functions in a mobile dev...

This study sought to investigate the effect of teacher codeswitching, as compared to monolingual (L2) instruction, on L2 vocabulary learning and retention. Though a sizeable body of research on teacher beliefs and behavior regarding classroom L1 use has diminished the efficacy of monolingual pedagogy, the potential of strategic codeswitching for facilitating L2 learning has only recently come u...