Amber Yayin Wang, "Competency-Based Teacher Education for English as a Foreign Language: Theory, Research, and Practice "
English | ISBN: 1032080728 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1032080728 | 2021 | 168 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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 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 English as a foreign language (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:
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