Reconceptualizing the Knowledge-Base of英文资料.pdf
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Reconceptualizing the Knowledge-Base of
Language Teacher Education
DONALD FREEMAN
School for International Training
KAREN E. JOHNSON
Pennsylvania State University Moving beyond the historical and theoretical traditions that have defined teacher education in TESOL over the last quarter century, in this introductory piece we argue for a reconceptualization of the knowledge-base of ESOL teacher education. Essential to this recon- ceptualization is the premise that the institutional forms and processes of teacher education frame how the profession responds to the basic sociocultural processes of learning to teach. As such, our teacher education practices constitute our professional self-definition. We ar- gue that the core of the new knowledge-base must focus on the activity of teaching itself;