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News Book Launch - Transforming Language Teaching and Learning
Book Launch - Transforming Language Teaching and Learning
L-R Professor Gerry Mac Ruairc, Head of the School of Education; Dr Patric Farren, Lecturer in the School of Education and President of NUI Galway, Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
A new book, 'Transforming Language Teaching and Learning’, by Dr Patrick Farren, Lecturer in the School of Education, NUI Galway, has been published by Peter Lang. The book is timely in light of the recent initiatives in language teaching and learning in Ireland.
It was launched by the President of NUI Galway, Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, on Wednesday 14th November 2018.
All are welcome to attend.
The Foreword, written by Dr Jane Jones, Head of Modern Foreign Language Teacher Education at King's College London, refers to how the three studies in the book ‘provide deeply satisfying, engaging and challenging pictures of initial teacher education and the exceptionally good educational work being undertaken’.
Following an outline of various practitioner research approaches and 'a scholarly consideration of language acquisition and learning theories that provide a framework for the book' (Jones), we are taken on a journey in the context of three studies undertaken by Farren in collaboration with university educators, student-teachers, and post-primary teachers at the National University of Ireland, Galway, King’s College London, and Boston College, MA.
The book includes interviews with several leading educators, e.g. Paul Black, a leading, international expert in formative and summative assessment. The book is available to buy online from the publisher or from Amazon.
The book will be of interest to language teachers, student-teachers, researchers, students in any sector of education, education bodies, parents, as well as the general reader with an interest in education.
More information here at Peter Lang and here at Amazon
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