Competency-based teacher education for English as a foreign language : theory, research, and practice / edited by Amber Yayin Wang.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Competency-based education : a literature review and its practical considerations for EFL teacher education / Amber Yayin Wang & Tzyy-Yuh Maa -- ompetency-based teacher education and sociocultural theory : exploring connections / Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão & Patrícia Fabiana Bedran -- Integrating language teacher identity into competency-based language teacher education / Eric K. Ku & Yeu-Ting Liu -- Undergraduate EFL majors' agency in ELT lesson designs / Chin-Wen Chien -- Revamping pre-service English reading instruction : the reading specialist training at an education university in Taiwan / Ya-Chen Chien -- Developing competency-based teacher education with school-university partnerships : a case in Taiwan / Amber Yayin Wang -- Developing teachers' competencies through intercultural telecollaboration / Martine Derivry-Plard, Paloma Castro-Prieto, Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão, & Sa-hui Fan -- Impact of different intercultural telecollaborative environments on Taiwanese ELF learner's communicative competencies / Sa-hui Fan & Martine Derivry-Plard -- Preparing pre-service EFL teachers to design issue-centered English instruction / I-An Chen -- Integrating global competence into elementary school pre-service teacher education of English language in Taiwan / Yilin Chen & Rae Ping Lin -- Developing competency-based teacher training through mind mapping for interdisciplinary school-based curricula / Ai Chun Yen & Jeffrey Gamble -- The use of telecollaboration for the development of intercultural competences in CLIL teacher education / Paloma Castro-Prieto.

"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: 1. Theory: current thoughts on theories of competency-based education 2. Research: empirical research on competency-based teacher education 3. Practice: integrating competency-based instruction into teacher education This book offers examples of competency-based EFL teacher education through both research and practical applications. In addition to the innovation in competency approaches, the inclusion of language learning in virtual environments offers a valuable resource for scholars, educators, researchers, and all those concerned with current and future education"--