Competency-Based Teacher Education for English as a Foreign Language: Theory, Research, and Practice

Providing a series of chapters, written by teacher educators in three continents, this edited volume explores the concepts, challenges, possibilities, and implementations of competency-based instruction for developing English competencies in EFL contexts.

Recent trends in education have emphasized the need to develop competencies that connect learning with real-life performances. This need has brought about a massive increase in the number of studies and scholarly works devoted to research into competency-based education. However, for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language (EFL), it is challenging to develop competencies for using a language that does not seem to connect with their real-life scenarios. The chapters apply the concept of competency-based instruction in different EFL contexts and are structured around three themes:

1. Theory: current thoughts on theories of competency-based education;
2. Research: empirical research on competency-based teacher education;
3. Practice: integrating competency-based instruction into teacher education.

This book presents international developments in both competency-based English language education and competency-based teacher education in specific EFL countries, offering a valuable resource for scholars, educators, graduate students, researchers, and all those who are concerned with current and the future of education.