Insights and perspectives for the first year of language teaching / Thomas S.C. Farrell -- Teachers'use of metaphor in making sense of the first year of teaching / Steve Mann -- Trained for teaching high school, poached for teacher training : a case study of a Cambodian English teacher's first year of teaching in Cambodia / Stephen Moore -- Learning to teach in the first year : a Singapore case study / Thomas S.C. Farrell -- Occupational socialization in the first year of teaching : perspectives from Thailand / David Hayes -- The transition from teacher education to ESL/EFL teaching in the first year for non-native English speaking teachers in Canada / Clea Schmidt -- The beliefs and practices of novice teachers in Hong Kong : change and resistance to change in an Asian teaching context / Alan W. Urmston and Martha C. Pennington -- Teaching post-CELTA : the interplay of novice teacher, course and context / Michela Borg -- Ghosts on the cupboard : discursive hauntings during the first year of French immersion teaching in Canada / Lace Marie Brogden & Becky Page -- From rats to language learners : the transition from the biochemistry laboratory to the language classroom in the first year of teaching / Y.L. Teresa Ting and Michael F. Watts -- Formation of ESL teacher identity during the first year : an introspective study / Alix Furness -- My first year of language teaching in Japan / Yukie Iwamura