Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
Quality in TESOL education in a globalized multilingual world
Quality language education in a multilingual world : a human rights perspective on theory and practice / David Little
Raising quality through critical pedagogy in TESOL / Graham Crookes
Policy and ideology in ELT : the impact of educational reforms on the quality of language education / Gabriele Azzaro and Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
Sustainability of quality in TESOL education : a strategic perspective on 21st-century education challenges / Ian Eyres and Clare Woodward
Quality and innovation in TESOL : blended and distance education / Chang Zhu, Liesbeth De Paepe, and Cynthia White
Quality in diversity in TESOL education
Quality outcomes through quality process / David Crabbe
Quality in language learning : strategy instruction and options for autonomous language learning / Andrew D. Cohen
Quality of teacher talk in TESOL classrooms : a critical-reflective analysis of discourse / Joanna Baumgart
Quality assurance and the expatriate native speaker teacher Péter Medgyes and Tamas Kiss
Making a difference through quality co-teaching between native and non-native teachers in foreign language classrooms / Daniel Roy Pearce, Tim Stewart, and Akira Tajino
What is the best method, if any, in TESOL? What is the desired quality in the post-method era? / Ali Shehadeh
Quality in TESOL materials design : addressing cultural content in ELT materials / Sophia Papaefthymiou-Lytra, Evangelia Karagianni, and Anastasia Pouliou
Quality through authenticity in TESOL : critical issues facing teacher education / Alexander Gilmore
Quality of feedback in TESOL : a learning-oriented assessment perspective / Atta Gebril and Gavin T. L. Brown
Quality language education for diversity and inclusion : challenges and proposals for quality improvement / Michael Dunn, Kristen Pratt, and Faith Van Putten
Quality assurance in CLIL in higher education : priorities and challenges / Do Coyle and Oliver Meyer
Quality teachers for quality education
Quality education begins with teachers : what are the qualities that make a TESOL teacher great? / Christine Coombe
Teacher identity and quality teaching : quality assurance for TESOL teacher education / John G. Trent
Professional competency profiles for quality teaching in TESOL : challenges for teacher educators / Darío Luis Banegas and Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo
The quality of emotional scaffolding in ELT : towards a quality emotional competence training in TESOL teacher education / Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo, Gabriele Azzaro, and Darío Luis Banegas
Quality teacher education for pronunciation teaching in L2 classrooms / John M. Levis and Sinem Sonsaat
Quality mentoring in TESOL practicum : challenges and proposals for improvement / Anh Tran, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, and Hongzhi Yang
Quality teacher education = quality teachers? Quality standards for TESOL teacher educators / Claire Tardieu
Evaluating the quality of innovation in TESOL teacher education / David Nunan, Hayley Black, and Julie Choi
Monitoring and evaluating the quality of online TESOL teacher education courses : ensuring quality assurance standards / Thom Kiddle and Gavin Dudeney
Looking back and ahead
The Odyssey of professional excellence and quality assurance in TESOL : the changing culture of the TESOL profession / MaryAnn Christison and Denise E. Murray
Afterword / Jack C. Richards

This volume takes a holistic view of the current trends and challenges in quality and quality assurance in TESOL and teacher education. Bringing together top scholars in the field from all over the world, the text features invaluable international perspectives with the common objective of improving the quality in TESOL and teacher education in constantly changing and challenging educational contexts globally. Grouped into four wide-ranging, thematic sections - on multilingualism, diversity, teacher education, and future challenges - the book addresses new obstacles faced by educational professionals in today's rapidly changing educational landscape by offering alternatives to quantitative targets. Chapter authors cover a range of contexts and timely issues, including technology in the classroom, culturally relevant teaching, teaching for continuous improvement, professional development, and monitoring and evaluating quality. Providing a forum of discussion on the intricacies, complexities, and challenges related to the urgent question of quality in the field, this book is a must-read for prospective ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators. --From publisher's description

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