Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

Kumaravadivelu (linguistics, San Jose State U.) presents a cyclical, process-based, transformation-centered model for helping second/foreign language teachers build their knowledge base, analyze learner needs, recognize their own beliefs and values, and see their own teaching from different perspectives. The core principles of the model are explained in terms of five global perspectives: post-national, post-modern, post-colonial, post-transmission, and post-method. The book includes writing prompts, reflection tasks, and projects. The book's readership includes students, teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)