The study reviews several conceptually controversial issues in the past decade in second language teacher education abroad.

While the teacher education literature tend to equate teacher autonomy with professional freedom,the second/ foreign language education literature views professional freedom as one but by no means the most important element in a conception of teacher autonomy.

On Qualities for Foreign Language Teachers;

On Foreign Language Teachers' Professional Development from the Perspective of International Engineering Education

Through elaborating four aspects, the author thus has formed about the new understanding of foreign language teachers’ quality connotation.

On strategy of foreign language teachers professional development in Henan colleges and universities;

As an approach to promoting professional development of foreign language teachers,peer observation is not commonly used in Chinese universities.

For the sake of their professional development, foreign language teachers put teaching theory into practice.

Lesson design: Performance of an EFL teacher s creativity;

This paper makes a discourse analysis of actual questions raised by an EFL teacher by setting up an analytic model based on Halliday s Systemic Functional Linguistics.

This paper discusses the criteria for a qualified foreign language teacher,the importance of EFL teachers professional development and university faculty development.