Bookcover of University EFL Teacher Professional Development In Online Environment
Booktitle:
University EFL Teacher Professional Development In Online Environment
An Empirical Research on Network-assisted Teacher Professional Development in a Key University in Central China
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
(2013-01-08
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-659-31962-4
ISBN-10:
3659319627
EAN:
9783659319624
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
In the developmental process of foreign language teaching and learning, the teacher is always the significant figure. In recent years, many Chinese experts and educators are placing increasingly more emphasis on EFL teacher professional development, and making fruitful academic achievements. In the meantime, recent years also witness the rapid advancement of network technology which is represented by the development of Web 2.0 framework.As applied in higher education, Web 2.0 framework creates a favorable platform for university EFL teacher professional development in the sense of knowledge acquisition, communication and innovation. Therefore, as the overlapping area of teacher professional development and network technology, university EFL teacher professional development in an online environment is definitely worthy of further academic exploration.