ELTED Vol 13 now out

Announcement: English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Volume 13 is now available online.

English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) – ISSN 1365-3741 – is an annual peer-reviewed journal for the worldwide ELT community which is produced by the English Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment (ELLTA) Research Group of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. It seeks to provide a medium for the exchange of ideas and information on issues pertaining to English language teacher education and development. The journal is targeted at all those involved in English language teacher education and development worldwide, for whom, at present, there are few published journals dealing specifically with this interest area.

All back issues, and the latest issue (Volume 13), which has just been published, are available at the following website:

http://www.elted.net/

Volume 13 (edited by Gerard Sharpling and Gosia Sky) is a special issue, focussing on teacher development, testing and assessment. It contains the following articles:

• · Introduction to special issue: Teacher development, testing and assessment – Gerard Sharpling and Gosia Sky
• · Evaluating the testing course in an MA in ELT – Mike Orr
• · In-service teacher portfolios: Participant views on assessment – Ravinarayan Chakrakodi
• · The purpose of English language teacher assessment in the English-speaking primary school in Cameroon – Achu Charles Tante
• · Summative evaluation of an English language testing and evaluation course for future English language teachers in Turkey – Çiler Hatipoðlu
• · Book Review: The TKT Course, by Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness and Melanie Williams – Darío Luis Banegas

Submissions to the journal on any aspect of English language teacher education and development, in the form of articles, reports (including reports of work-in-progress and of practitioner research) and letters or comments on previously published articles, are always welcome. Please contact the editor of the next issue, Gerard Sharpling (G.S.Sharpling@warwick.ac.uk), with any queries.

Richard Smith and Ema Ushioda

Co-convenors, ELLTA Research Group, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick