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Article: The Overwhelmed Generation and Foreign Language Teacher Preparation: Developing Strategies To Work With the Mental Health Challenges of Preservice Teachers
- Article from:
- Foreign Language Annals
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
- Author:
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Abstract:
For the last two decades the foreign language education profession has spent considerable energy establishing professional guidelines for foreign language teacher preparation. This article discusses research that suggests that the profession should now direct its energies toward
developing protocols to assist preservice teachers whose mental health challenges place them at risk in their quest to become foreign language teachers. Further, the article discusses why teacher educators are ill prepared to cope with the substantial mental health issues undergraduates currently face. Examples are presented from a teacher education program that modified its supervision process to ...
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