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Publication Date: 2018
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Community of Practice: An Effective Way to ESL Teacher Professional Development in Vocational Colleges
Kong, Shan
English Language Teaching, v11 n7 p158-162 2018
Teacher professional development is essential to English teaching reform in vocational colleges. Community of practice presents a new way for professional development of ESL teachers in vocational colleges in China. This paper introduces and discusses the process of creating and exploring ESL teacher community of practice in a vocational college. And it points out that teacher community of practice is an effective way to teacher professional development.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Vocational Education, College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education
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