LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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The Knowledge Base of Language Teachers

Sudhir Kumar Panda, M.A. (English), M.Phil. (ELT), PGCTE, Ph.D. Scholar

Introduction

Although teacher education and faculty development programs have been in existence for a long time, second language teacher education is a relatively recent development. However, in the last thirty years, there has been an explosion in the teaching and learning of second languages, both in the actual teaching and in the education of second language teachers. This has been particularly rapid in the field of English as a second/foreign language (ESL), which is the focus of this paper.

Two Aspects

In examining pre-service ESL teacher education programs, we can recognize two major aspects. The first is the knowledge base or the information that we believe our students must know. The second aspect is the way or ways in which that knowledge is delivered to our students.

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Sudhir Kumar Panda, M.A. (English), M.Phil. (ELT), PGCTE, Ph.D. Scholar
Lecturer in English
Templecity Institute of Technology and Engineering
Khurda
Bhubaneswar
Orissa
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