Novice Language Teachers - Insights and Perspectives for the First Year - Thomas S.C. Farrell
From rats to language learners: The transition from the biochemistry laboratory to the language classroom in the first year of teaching
Novice Language Teachers - Insights and Perspectives for the First Year - Thomas S.C. Farrell
Yen-Ling Teresa Ting [+]
University of Calabria
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Assistant Professor of English Applied Linguistics
Michael Watts [+]
Educational Consultant
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My UK-based evaluation/research & development experience includes: (i) access to higher education (including progression to Oxbridge from the state sector, access opportunities for refugees, part-time study, student funding and the pedagogies of higher education); (ii) dis/ability and music education; (iii) global citizenship; and (iv) educational well-being.
International experience includes work in and/or with colleagues from Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Malawi and Vietnam.
I am educational consultant to the Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace Project.
I founded the journal Power and Education.
I currently teach on: (i) the University of Liverpool's Doctor of Education (Higher Education) programme; and (ii) Victoria University's MTESOL (Vietnam) programme.
Description
This chapter relates how two research-based tools enabled the author to become a classroom teacher and to make the transition to a new disciplinary culture.