A Socio-Cultural Approach toward EFL Teacher Education in Taiwan

This is a case study through action research to plan and design a TEFL graduate course of “Writing Development and Instruction”, to observe and document the data from students’ writing assignments, reflective reports, and collaborative tasks and finally their term papers and portfolios. Through content analysis, the researcher tries to report the content and the issues discussed in the course. The results of the study are presented as: Issue 1: qualifications of being a teacher, Issue 2: professional knowledge and development, Issue 3: learning by doing, the two field trips during the semester, Issue 4: The self and identity.