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Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal

Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal

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Book Review: Professionalizing Your English Language Teaching Christine Coombe, Neil J Anderson and Lauren Stephenson (Eds.), 2020

Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal, Volume 3, Pages 33-36, https://doi.org/10.32038/ltf.2021.03.03
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At present, ELT moves from globalization to localization (Bayyurt & Dewey, 2020) in TESOL, rendering the field locally and globally more professional. The main impetus for this universal move traces back to the advent of the paradigm shift in the 1990s (Kumaravadivelu, 2001); Kumaravadivelu maintains that two dramatic changes appeared in language education: A paradigm shift in ELT and a paradigm shift in teacher education. The central tenets of both are to professionalize education and language teaching further. Accordingly, being context-sensitive, the paradigm shift has brought the debate concerning professionalism in ELT to an end, professionally, practically, locally and globally, going where the scholars have not gone before.

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English Language Teaching; Teacher Education

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Ali Panahi

Ali Panahi

Since 1998, Ali Panahi has worked, presented, published, and researched in ELT and language assessment. He is enthusiastic about language assessment, teacher training and performing systematic reviews of the research works of distinguished scholars in the field. He has jointly (with Hassan Mohebbi) surveyed and reviewed all of the decades-published research works of Jack C. Richards, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Glenn Fulcher, Rebecca Oxford, James Dean Brown and so forth. His recent published book is titled Teacher Training in ELT. In terms of academic and professional qualifications, he holds a PhD in ELT, Train the Trainer Certificate from Cambridge University and two Diplomas (Dip. in TESOL and Dip. in Teacher Training). He loves education and training teachers.

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