Table of Contents

1. Insights and Perspectives for The First Year of Language Teaching (Thomas S.C. Farrell)2. Teachers' use of metaphor in making sense of the first year of teaching (Steve Mann)3. Trained for teaching high school, poached for teacher training: A case study of a Cambodian English teacher's first year of teaching in Cambodia. (Stephen Moore) 4. Learning to teach in the First Year: A Singapore Case Study (Thomas S.C. Farrell)5. Occupational socialization in the first year of teaching: perspectives from Thailand (David Hayes)6. The Transition from Teacher Education to ESL/EFL Teaching in the First Year for Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in Canada (Clea Schmidt )7. The Beliefs and Practices of Novice Teachers in Hong Kong: Change and Resistance to Change in an Asian Teaching Context (Alan W. Urmston and Martha C. Pennington)8. Teaching Post-CELTA: the interplay of novice teacher, course and context (Michela Borg)9. Ghosts on the Cupboard: Discursive Hauntings During the First Year of French Immersion Teaching in Canada (Lace Marie Brogden & Becky Page)10. From rats to language learners: The transition from the biochemistry laboratory to the language classroom in the first year of teaching (Y.L. Teresa Ting and Michael F. Watts)11. Formation of ESL Teacher Identity during the First Year: An Introspective Study (Alix Furness )12. My first year of language teaching in Japan (Yukie Iwamura)

About the Author

Thomas S.C. Farrell is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Canada. His professional interests include Reflective Practice, and Language Teacher Education and Development. He is series editor for the Language Teacher Research series (Asia, Americas, Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and the Middle East) for TESOL, USA. His recent books are Succeeding with English Language Learners: A guide for beginning teachers (2006, Corwin Press, Sage); What successful literacy teachers do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007, co-authored with Neal Glasgow, Corwin Press, Sage Publications); and Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice (2008, Continuum Press).

Reviews

The book is well organized, has a standardized format for each chapter ... and is reader-friendly. It should be of use to curriculum developers in English language teacher education programs to tailor those programs to fit the needs of their students. Teacher educators and their students can examine the problems and solutions described by the teachers in this book and engage in what Farrell calls "anticipatory reflection" (p. 53). This book may also be useful for experienced teachers to help guide new teachers through the socialization process in their schools... Further research in this area will augment what Farrell and his colleagues have established with this fascinating volume.'
TESOL Quarterly