Social Media and Foreign Language Teacher Education: Beliefs and Practices

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Author(s): Jiahang Li (Michigan State University, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 17
Source title: Preparing Foreign Language Teachers for Next-Generation Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Chin-Hsi Lin (Michigan State University, USA), Dongbo Zhang (Michigan State University, USA)and Binbin Zheng (Michigan State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0483-2.ch014

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / Teacher Education

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This chapter will focus on examining how instructors who are preparing foreign language teachers, both pre-service and in-service, integrate social media in their teaching practices to gain more insights on what beliefs these instructors hold and what differences and similarities between their beliefs and actual teaching practices about social media integration in foreign language teacher education. The chapter will first provide a literature review about the general beliefs that instructors held on the integration of social media and foreign language teacher education. Next, promising examples of the integration of social media in foreign language teacher education will be provided. Last but not least, affordances and challenges of the integration of social media and foreign language teacher education will be discussed, followed by implications and future directions.

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