TY - BOOK AU - Hanna Komorowska AU - Jarosław Krajka PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2196-016X SN - 9783631864227 TI - Cultural and Social Diversity in Language Teacher Education DO - 10.3726/b18834 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1069075 N2 - The aim of the present book is to examine the social and cultural diversity of language teacher education, providing a unified account of highly diversified teacher development and appraisal realities across sociocultural contexts. We will strive to make an overview of a wide range of issues related to teacher development approaches and models, teacher competences, adopted roles, stressors and motivators, teacher appraisal systems, professional examinations and certifications as well as digital opportunities for teacher development. All of these concepts will be discussed in a wide social and cultural context, trying to bring examples from numerous countries. KW - applied linguistics, language teacher education, sociocultural contexts of language teaching methodology, language teacher appraisal, continued professional development, teacher training LA - English ER -