Information was drawn from candidates' video tape recordings made during student teaching, observation reports written by both university supervisors and cooperating teachers and journal entries kept by both candidates and cooperating teachers. Based on the study and our collective experience in Japanese language pedagogy, we offer several recommendations for a comprehensive Japanese teacher preparation program. This paper reports on an innovative portfolio project which became an official requirement for students registered in an ESL teacher education BA program during a recent program revision. The project spans the entire program. The objectives and procedures for operationalizing the project are presented.
Features highlighted include student-produced web site portfolios.
This paper outlines the problems encountered by the author as she taught Pedagogical Grammar, and presents some strategies she used to address the situation. Student-teachers, teachers, and faculty are teamed together to identify and solve problems specific to rural or low incidence ESL teaching. Participants learn to apply in their teaching, and share with colleagues, their knowledge of such diverse areas of SLA as interlanguage pragmatics and neurocognition. The present paper reports on a master's program in Japanese language pedagogy, offered at an American university during the summer. The main objective of the program is to train both new and in-service teachers for proficiency oriented instruction.