Coteaching and Other Collaborative Practices in the Efl

With this volume the editors' goal is to offer an accessible resource long-awaited by educators whose individualinstructional practice and/or institutional paradigm shifted to a more collaborative approach to languageeducation. Through this collection of chapters the contributing authors closely examine ESL/EFL coteachingand other collaborative practices by (a) exploring the rationale for teacher collaboration to supportESL/EFL instruction (b) presenting current classroom-based practitioner-oriented research studies anddocumentary accounts related to co-teaching co-planning co-assessing curriculum alignment teacher professionaldevelopment and additional collaborative practices and (c) offering authentic teacher reflectionsand recommendations on collaboration and co-teaching. These three major themes are woven togetherthroughout the entire volume designed as a reference to both novice and experienced teachers in theirendeavors to provide effective integrated collaborative instruction for EFL or ESL learners. This volume will help preservice and inservice ESL/EFLteachers teacher educators professional developers ESL/EFL program directors and administrators to find answers to critical questions about collaborativepractices.