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The Professional Development Of Future Professors Of Foreign Languages:, Heather W. Allen, Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola
The Professional Development Of Future Professors Of Foreign Languages:, Heather W. Allen, Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola
Heather Willis Allen
Although the professional development of graduate students in foreign language (FL) departments is of critical importance, discussion of its significance and evolution was all but absent in the 2007 MLA Report “Foreign languages and higher education: New structures for a changed world," a document advocating curricular and structural reforms of FL departments in forthright terms. This lacuna drove the current review which traces the foci and forms of research appearing from 1987 to 2008 on the professional development of future professors of foreign languages. Although empirical studies on the relation of graduate students' beliefs and identities to their FL teaching …