There is an immense benefit to understanding skill transfer: how skills from a previous field of study, profession, and/or personal discipline inform you as a language teacher. There is even a greater value in explicitly drawing on this diverse skillset for instructional practice, as making conscious connections between the overlap of skillsets permits deliberate and effective use of these skills.
Biographical Sketch
Kara Mac Donald is an associate professor at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California, USA. Her background consists of over twenty-three years in foreign language teaching, teacher training, curriculum design, and faculty development across elementary, secondary, and higher education.
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