27.4532, FYI: Call for Chapters

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-4532. Mon Nov 07 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.4532, FYI: Call for Chapters

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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:32:51
From: Subhan Zein [subhanzein at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for Chapters

 Call for Chapters

English language teacher education in Indonesia: Theory and practice

Among countries within the Outer Circle, Indonesia is the world’s second
largest market of English language education. This privileged status, however,
is not akin to a superior language proficiency that Indonesian citizens
achieve in comparison to their neighbours in Singapore and the Philippines. In
the past, English language education in Indonesia struggled to help increase
the proficiency of the learners (Dardjowidjojo, 2000), and it appears that the
continuing struggle to prepare successful conditions for learning is evident
in recent years (Hamied & Musthafa, 2013) both at primary (Zein, 2016a) and
secondary levels of education (Sukyadi, 2015). Recent publications have
demonstrated that this problem is attributed to a plethora of issues ranging
from the urgent need for an enhanced and highly contextualised English
language pedagogy (Widodo, In Press), a lack of a unified nationwide
curriculum design that accounts for teachers’ professional identity (Gandana &
Parr, 2013), to ambivalent language-in-education policy (Zein, 2016a). 

Language teacher education has also become a major area of concern that needs
attention (Saukah, 2009). Much focus has been paid to teacher education at
primary level (e.g. Zein, 2015, 2016b, 2016c) where its growing interest is
not synonymous to increased teacher efficacy and enhanced professionalism. 
However, there has not been a systematic research that addresses English
language teacher education in Indonesia as a sustainable process of teachers’
professional enhancement. How Indonesia is coping with the urgent need of
educating teachers at both pre-service and in-service levels remains unknown.
This is unfortunate given the increasingly important role of English that has
recently been adopted as the working language of the ASEAN Economic Community
(AEC) in which Indonesia is one of its member states (Stroupe & Kimura, 2015)
as well as the heightened emphasis on English mastery to succeed in a global
competition. 

This proposed volume responds to the absence of such a research. We as the
editors believe that knowledge sharing related to overcoming challenges and
developing strategies for success could be beneficial for teacher educators
working at universities and training institutions in the country. Enhancing
the debates around English language teacher education in Indonesia is timely
in order to further elucidate an enhanced practice of teacher education and
better inform policy making. 

In light of these theoretical and practical backgrounds, we welcome proposals
that are related to English language teacher education in Indonesia. Your
proposed chapter may either be theoretically- or empirically based, and it may
either touch upon the pre-service or in-service levels of teacher education.
However, it needs to focus on either one of the following issues: 

- Curriculum development; 
- Policy on teacher education; 
- Programme evaluation; 
- School-based learning; 
- Teaching practicum; 
- Classroom observation; 
- Action research; 
- Teacher supervision; 
- Microteaching; and 
- Teacher educator professionalism. 

Publication will be sought with a major international publisher. 

In writing up your abstract (400 words), please ensure that you: 

- outline the theoretical foundations for your studies (relevant references
are needed); 
- describe the chosen theoretical framework (if theoretical-based chapter) or
the research methodology of your study (e.g., research instruments, sample,
analysis) (if empirically-based); 
- specify how your study contributes to implications for English language
teacher education in Indonesia in one of the areas listed above. 

We welcome individual or shared authorship. We encourage authors to
collaborate with their colleagues or international scholar(s) having expertise
or experience in English language teacher education in Indonesia.

Please follow the APA 6th Edition referencing style for reference purposes.
Please submit your proposals consisting of: 

- an abstract of 400 words; and
- your short biography (50 words) in ONE (1) Word File by 30 November 2016 to
us: subhanzein at gmail.com and zulfasakhiyya at gmail.com.

Should your proposals be accepted, you will be notified on 3 December 2016.
Draft of full chapters (7,000 words, including references) will be due on 30
April 2017. Editorial feedback will be provided by 30 May 2016. Revised
chapters will be due on 30 August 2017. 

We look forward to receiving your proposals. 

Sincerely, 

Mochamad Subhan Zein (Trinity College, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
and Zulfa Sakhiyya (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
 
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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