Date of Completion
12-1996
Document Type
Open Access Capstone
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
First Advisor
Arthur B. Millman
Second Advisor
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Third Advisor
Donaldo P. Macedo
Abstract
This thesis explores the development of professional expertise in teaching ESL. Such expertise incorporates the methodological instructional knowledge, intercultural awareness, and multilingual competence essential to meeting highly diversified learning needs in US classrooms, facilitating globalization of domestic business interests, and enabling the integration of immigrants into American society. I encourage a view of ESL teachers as craftspersons and intellectuals who integrate a reflective approach toward personal experience and a comprehensive awareness of relevant intellectual constructs into a dialectical interaction with theory and practice.
Recommended Citation
Alcalay, Leor, "Learning How to Teach How to Learn English as a Second Language: Reflections from Experience, Praxis, and Theory" (1996). Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection. 419.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cct_capstone/419