- Author
- Gorsuch, Greta
- Publisher
- New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
- ISBN
- 9781581072242
- Table of Contents
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Introduction
Organization of the Volume
Part One - Chapters Focusing on Teaching Assistants in General
ch. 1 Scalable Design Principles for TA Development: Lessons from Research, Theory and Experience
ch. 2 The Role of Theory in TA and ITA Research
ch. 3 Feedback about Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Pedagogical Practices: Content Validation of a Survey Informed from Principles of the “How People Learn” Framework
ch. 4 A Theoretical and Empirical Basis for Studying Student-Instructor Relationships
ch. 5 Teaching Assistant Development Through a Fresh Lens: A Self-determination Framework
ch. 6 Preparing the Future Professoriate in Second Language Acquisition
ch. 7 The Development of Disciplinary Communication Competence Among Teaching Assistants: A Research Agenda
ch. 8 Using Grounded Theory to Develop Emergent Explanations on how Second and Foreign Language TAs Construct Their Teacher Theory
ch. 9 Conceptualizing Graduate Teaching Assistant Development Through Stages of Concern
ch. 10 Appropriating Conceptual and Pedagogical Tools of Literacy
ch. 11 Does Instruction Make a Difference? Concept Development in Applied Linguistics M.A. Students
Part Two - Articles Focusing More Exclusively on International Teaching Assistants
ch. 12 Rapport Management of International Teaching Assistants in Their Teaching
ch. 13 A Microethnographic Case Study of Fulbright Language Teaching Assistants
ch. 14 The Roles of Teacher Theory and Domain Theory in Materials and Research in International Teaching Assistant Education
ch. 15 The Instructional Discourse of Domestic and International Teaching Assistants
ch. 16 Written English into Spoken: A Functional Discourse Analysis of American, Indian, and Chinese TA Presentations
ch. 17 The Washback of a Task-based Test of Spoken Language on the Development of ITAs Strategic Compentence
ch. 18 Chinese International Teaching Assistants and the Essence of Intercultural Competence in University Contexts
ch. 19 Learning to Make Suggestions in a Chemistry Lab
ch. 20 Conversation Analysis of the Classroom Communication of a Math ITA
This extensive, edited volume showcases established and emerging scholars in the field of Teaching Assistant (TA) and International Teaching Assistant (ITA) education. Working Theories goes beyond reporting good practices or program descriptions, which typically comprises many books on TA and ITA development.  Instead, Working Theories places time-tested, robust theories, frameworks, and models of TA and ITA learning and development at the center of graduate student education by providing a scholarly venue for description, explication, and application of these theories. In turn, these theories and models from psychology, sociology, pedagogy, discourse analysis, and second language learning will be presented in such as way as to inform good practice, but above all, motivate future research. (From the Publisher)