2018-10-172018-10-172007Hyland, F. (2007). Working with Learners: Shaping and Contextualizing a Teacher Education Methodology Course in the UAE, in Teacher Education and Continuing Professional Development: Insights from the Arabian Gulf, TESOL Arabia, online available: http://www.tesolarabia.co/e-store/002-%e2%80%a2-teacher-education-and-continuing-professional-development-insights-from-the-arabian-gulf/http://www.tesolarabia.co/e-store/002-%e2%80%a2-teacher-education-and-continuing-professional-development-insights-from-the-arabian-gulf/http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2288“Working with learners”: shaping and contextualizing a teacher education methodology course in the U.A.E.Language teacher education programs have traditionally focused on transmission, product-orientated approaches that are applicable to any teaching context. However, there is a growing shift towards a constructivist, process-orientated perspective where student teachers are active participants in learning to teach. This article discusses the rationale behind shaping and contextualizing a teacher education reading methodology course in the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) B.Ed program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Through the HCT’s Program Quality Assurance (PQA) process – using course evaluations and observational analysis – it was suggested that approaches such as microteaching, reciprocal teaching, modeling and problem-based learning might better maximize opportunities to practice the teaching of reading in a foreign language context. These findings could have important implications for teacher education programs in the UAE, by establishing the importance of building concrete links between theory and practice.enghttp://www.tesolarabia.co/e-store/002-%e2%80%a2-teacher-education-and-continuing-professional-development-insights-from-the-arabian-gulf/WorkingLearnersContextualizingTeacherEducationMethodologyU.A.E.United Arab EmiratesLanguageLiteracyArticle