Paula Golombek

About

Paula Golombek is a Clinical Professor of Linguistics at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her areas of interest and research include Teacher Learning in L2, Teacher Education, Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory and Language, Teacher Professional Development, and Language Teacher Narrative Inquiry as Professional Development. She holds a PhD in Speech Communication from The Pennsylvania State University (1995), an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Boston College (1990), an MA in Political Science from Regis College (1986), and a BA in Political Science with a minor in Spanish from Catholic University (1983). Her academic background and research focus on language teaching, teacher development, and sociocultural theories related to language education. For more information, her contact details include email pgolombek@ufl.edu and phone (352) 294-7459, with office hours scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Spring 2023 semester.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Literature
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Pedagogy
• Psychoanalysis
• Linguistics
• Art

Selected publications

• Unifying cognition, emotion, and activity in language teacher professional development

  Teaching and Teacher Education · 2014-02-02 · 339 citations

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• Informing and transforming language teacher education pedagogy

  Language Teaching Research · 2018-06-11 · 286 citations

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  Given emerging trends in where, why, how, and to what end English language teachers are being prepared, we argue that greater attention to the design, enactment, and consequences of language teacher education (LTE) pedagogy is critical in order to meet the needs of current and future English language teachers in an increasingly diverse, mobile, unequal, and globalized world. Through our experiences and conviction as researchers and teacher educators, we position a Vygotskian sociocultural theore…

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• The Transformative Power of Narrative in Second Language Teacher Education

  TESOL Quarterly · 2011-09-01 · 255 citations

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  Within the field of second language teacher education (SLTE), narrative has largely functioned as a vehicle for teacher inquiry, based on the assumption that such inquiry will ultimately bring about productive change in teachers and their teaching practices. Less attention has been paid to documenting what this change looks like or how engagement in narrative activities fosters teacher professional development. From a Vygotskian sociocultural theoretical perspective, we argue that the transforma…

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• Mindful L2 Teacher Education

  2016-02-05 · 195 citations

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  Taking a Vygotskian sociocultural stance, this book demonstrates the meaningful role that L2 teacher educators and L2 teacher education play in the professional development of L2 teachers through systematic, intentional, goal-directed, theorized L2 teacher education pedagogy. The message is resoundingly clear: Teacher education matters! It empirically documents the ways in which engagement in the practices of L2 teacher education shape how teachers come to think about and enact their teaching wi…

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• Redrawing the Boundaries of Language Teacher Cognition: Language Teacher Educators’ Emotion, Cognition, and Activity

  Modern Language Journal · 2015-09-01 · 141 citations

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  This article, grounded in a Vygotskian sociocultural perspective, details the self‐inquiry of a language teacher educator who examined her emotional dissonance regarding her mediation of the reflection journals of a teacher learner teaching an ESL class during an internship. Data from the teacher learner's reflection journals and the teacher educator's responses were analyzed to characterize the teacher learner's approach to writing the journals and the teacher educator's written responses. The…

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Frequent coauthors

• Karen E. Johnson

  13 shared

• Karen E. Johnson

  The University of Texas at Austin

  5 shared

• Maria R. Coady

  4 shared

• Nidza Marichal

  3 shared

• Anne Burns

  3 shared

• Cathie Elder

  Swinburne University of Technology

  2 shared

• Jacob Rieker

  2 shared

• Donald Freeman

  2 shared

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