[lg policy] panel: When Language Teacher Educators, Language Policy Makers, and Politicians Meet: Lessons from the South

[Harold Schiffman]

Featured Plenary
When Language Teacher Educators, Language Policy Makers, and
Politicians Meet: Lessons from the South



Abstract

Language policies play a role in the education and professional
development of language teachers and challenge teacher educators’
beliefs, practices, and skills. González explores issues of power,
status and local knowledge construction analyzing critically
agreements and tensions that have risen among Colombian language
teacher educators, policy makers, and politicians in the
implementation of the National Program of Bilingualism. She presents
some lessons learned in this dynamic encounter that may enlighten
further discussions in language teacher education and professional
development.


Adriana González Moncada
Associate Professor, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia

Dr. González obtained her doctoral degree in Linguistics (TESOL) from
State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1995 and her M.A in
Language Sciences from Université de Nancy II (France) in 1991.  She
is presently an associate professor at the School of Languages at the
Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. In the B. Ed program
in Foreign Language Teacher Education and in the M.A. program in
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning she teaches courses in EFL
Teaching and Learning, Classroom Research and Teachers Professional
Development.  Her research and publications focus on EFL teaching and
learning, teacher education, professional development and language
policies. Besides her academic work in Colombia, Dr. González has
presented papers in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Spain.
She has been s a member of the editorial teams of the Colombian
refereed journals IKALA, PROFILE, and Colombian Applied Linguistics
Journal. She has served as the secretary of the Colombian Association
of Teachers of English (ASOCOPI) for the last five years. She is also
a member of the National Committee for Quality in Higher Education of
the Colombian Ministry of Education.

http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/LTE2011/speaker2.html

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