Language Awareness in Teacher Education

Stephan Breidbach is Professor for English Language Education at Humboldt-University Berlin.Daniela Elsner is Professor for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University Frankfurt am Main.Andrea Young is currently a Lecturer in primary language education at the IUFM d’Alsace / Université de Strasbourg.

• Contents: Stephan Breidbach/Daniela Elsner/Andrea Young: Language awareness in teacher education: cultural-political and social-educational perspectives – Alice Chik: Learner language awareness development among Asian learners and implications for teacher education – Ana Sofia Pinho/Lurdes Gonçalves/Ana Isabel Andrade/Maria Helena Araújo e Sá: Engaging with diversity in teacher language awareness: teachers’ thinking, enacting and transformation – Paula Kalaja/Riikka Alanen/Hannele Dufva: ‘Teacher trainees’ beliefs about EFL learning in the light of narratives – Marilisa Birello/Corinne Royer/Delphine Pluvinet: Reflective journals: a tool for the professional development of language teachers – Stephan Breidbach: Teaching for «strong voices»: reconstructing the reflexive dimension in communicative language teaching – Özlem Etuş: Where the local meets the global: intercultural awareness-raising and critical media literacy – Yoshimura Masahito: Creating a space for language awareness in teacher education in Japan: a project promoting children’s awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity – Kangxian Zhao/Yamin Qian/Yuanyuan Chen/Fang Liu: Language awareness and language learning ideology: What do Chinese students say? – Ma Qing: In search of ways in which Chinese English teachers can come to change and improve their learners’ vocabulary learning strategy use – Daniela Elsner: Raising plurilingual awareness in teacher education – Ana Luísa Oliveira/Maria Helena Ançã: Fostering students’ plurilingual competence through language awareness - implications for language teacher education – Wasyl Cajkler/Bernadette Hall: Teacher education and English as an additional language (EAL) in primary schools: perspectives from new teachers – Andy Hancock: Turning the tide: student teachers and pedagogical perspectives of multilingual primary schools in Scotland – Begoña Pedrosa/David Lasagabaster: Exploring beliefs, multilingual language awareness raising, and the Pygmalion effect.