Systematizing Teacher Development: A Review of Foreign Language Teacher Learning

Foreign language teaching practice is developing rapidly, but research on foreign language teacher learning is currently relatively fragmented and unstructured. The book Foreign Language Teacher Learning, written by Professor Kang Yan from Capital Normal University, published in September 2022, makes a systematic introduction to foreign language teacher learning, which to some extent makes up for this shortcoming. Her book presents the lineage of foreign language teacher learning research at home and abroad, analyzes both theoretical and practical aspects, reviews the cuttingedge research results, and foresees the future development trend, painting a complete research picture for researchers in the field of foreign language teaching and teacher education as well as front-line teachers interested in foreign language teacher learning. This is an important inspiration for conducting foreign language teacher learning research in the future. And this paper makes a review of the book from aspects such as its content, major characteristics, contributions and limitations.