- Title
- English community school teacher education and English as a second language in Papua New Guinea
- Creator
- Zeegers, Margaret
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/67559
- Identifier
- vital:2975
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13598660500121902
- Identifier
- ISSN:1469-2945
- Abstract
- This article explores community (primary) school teacher education in the subject, English, at a Papua New Guinea (PNG) teachers' college as manifested in end-of-year English lessons in practicum rounds of pre-service community school teachers. English is the official language overlaid on 700 indigenous languages in this country where reconstructionism informs policy decisions. Given this, the importance of success in English in schools is not to be underestimated. The research focuses on the implementation the knowledge, skills, strategies and materials acquired by pre-service English teachers in a coastal province in PNG in the context of a number of public statements on educational policy and practice. It examines the impact of these as indicated in lesson plans and supervisors' reports; C1
- Publisher
- UK Routledge
- Relation
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 33, no. 2 (2005), p. 135-146
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; Teachers; Teacher education
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