Online Education for Teachers of English as a Global Language

Hyun-Sook Kang is an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, & Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her areas of research include language learning and practice in relation to cross-border mobility and she is Co-Editor of the Journal of Language, Identity and Education. Dong-shin Shin is an assistant professor in the Literacy and Second Language Studies program of University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Her research and teaching focus on English learners’ language and literacy development. She has published in the areas of multimodal composing, digital literacies, and online language teacher education. Tony Cimasko is the ESL Composition coordinator in the Department of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on second language writing and TESOL. His research interests include second language writing, multimodal composition, genre analysis and learning, and TESOL professional development.

• Contributor Biographies1. Introduction Part I: Paradigm Shifts and Best Practices2. Preparing K-12 Teachers for Effective Instruction of English Learners: The Transformation of a Purdue University Online Language Teacher Education Program3. Practicums in Online Language Teacher Education: Instructors’ Perceptions of Online Teaching and Using Video as a Key Practice 4. Investigation of External and Internal Quality Assurance Strategies in Online Language Teacher Education5. MOOCs and MOOC Camps for Online Teacher Professional Development: Experiences and Perspectives from the Philippines6. Shifting Paradigms: A Case of Online Language Teacher Education for Online Language Teachers in SpainPart II: Pitfalls and Promises7. From Face-to-Face to Online: Teacher Educators’ Cognitions and Tensions in Developing a Blended Learning Program8. Identities and Emotions in Online Language Teacher Education Programs9. Access in Online Language Teacher Education: Issues and Strategies 10. Chinese EFL Online Technology and Teacher Education: A Multi-Case Study from an Ecological Perspective11. Moving Forward Index