Current Issues in Teacher Education: 2006–2009

The Curriculum for English Language Teacher Education in Australian and Vietnamese Universities

“…One under-researched topic is the development of the curriculum of SLTE. Another missing "hot" topic is comparative research on teacher education (Dooley, Dangel, & Farran, 2011).…”

Exploring Mandarin Chinese Teacher's Knowledge Base in China and the US: A Comparative Case Study

“…Besides, past studies showed that a signi cant number of Chinese teachers encountered di culties in adapting their teaching approaches in the foreign language classrooms (Cheng, known if the MTCSOL and MATCSL graduates pose essential subject matter knowledge, procedural knowledge, and other domains of teacher knowledge needed to perform required teaching roles. Research on the Chinese teacher's knowledge base is still underrepresented within the Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) literature (Dooley, Dangel, & Farran, 2011). Hence, we embarked on this study to examine Chinese teachers' knowledge base in both China and the US context through a comparative curriculum inquiry.…”

Graduate Students’ Antecedents to Meaningful and Constructive Discussions: Developing Potential Collaborative Online Interactions

“…1), where students had read and combined ideas from the Bgood^and Bbad^posts. Following Dooley et al (2011), we initially used the tool BWordle.net^to create a BWordle word cloud.^The BWordle.net^mechanism differentiates font size based on word frequency and then the BWordle word clouds represent more frequent categories in larger font, less frequent in smaller font^(p. 307). Wordle's are used both in practice (e.g., Miley and Read 2011;Ramsden and Bate 2008) and research in the humanities and social sciences (e.g., Clement et al 2008;Dann 2008;McNaught andLam 2010, Viegas et al 2009).…”