scholarly journals Promoting teacher–learner autonomy through and beyond initial language teacher education

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ema Ushioda ◽  
Richard Smith ◽  
Steve Mann ◽  
Peter Brown
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
The University

With the growing international market for pre-experience MA in ELT/TESOL programmes, a key curriculum design issue is how to help students develop as learners of teaching through and beyond their formal academic studies. We report here on our attempts at the University of Warwick to address this issue, and consider wider implications for research and practice in initial language teacher education. At the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, we run a suite of MA programmes for English language teaching professionals from around the world. Most of these courses are for students with prior teaching experience, but our MA in English Language Studies and Methods (ELSM) programme is designed for students with less than two years’ experience and, in fact, the majority enrol straight after completing their undergraduate studies in their home countries.

scholarly journals In-Service LTE Program for Chinese Private Institute English Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Reflective Practitioner ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Program Schedule ◽  
Training Courses

This paper describes a half-year in-service Language Teacher Education (LTE) program, targeting the trainee teachers who work in Chinese private English institutes. This is to better prepare them at the outset of their career. Primarily intending to build the trainee teachers’ professionalism and raise their awareness, an overall illustration of adopted training courses and choice of activities are introduced in this paper. Focusing on integrating instructional knowledge from ESL and English language teaching, the LTE program schedule will allow majority of readers to implement during their daily teaching and research activities. Principles underpinning this program design are illustrated one by one. A course like this may not foster all teachers to become professionals at once, but to be a reflective practitioner can be a reachable goal, as accumulation of professional expertise is based on teachers’ capability of understanding how to reflect on teaching.

scholarly journals Toward a Decolonizing Framework for Equity-Oriented English Language Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-347
Author(s):  
Kongji Qin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Nonnative English Speakers ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism

Abstract In this article I critically review the current literature on English language teaching (elt), (neo)colonialism, and empire to advance a decolonizing framework for equity-oriented English language teacher education (elte). This framework first argues that teachers should be supported to understand and confront linguistic imperialism of the English empire to promote plurilingual approaches to elt while developing students’ critical awareness of power. Second, it contends that instead of asking elt professionals to apply Western centered pedagogies that are often ill-suited to their local instructional realities, they should be supported to develop their own praxis. Third, it calls for disrupting epistemological racism to reclaim local knowledge. Lastly, it emphasizes the need to unsettle colonial ontology of white supremacy and native-speakerism that render teachers of color and nonnative English speakers (nnes) as perpetual Others. The article concludes with a call for action to prepare language teachers to disrupt racism, (neo)colonialism, and inequality through their praxis.

Arguing for a knowledge-base in language teacher education, then (1998) and now (2018)

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teacher Language ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Professional Confidence

This article examines how the concept of a knowledge-base in language teacher education has changed since the 1998 proposal. Arguing that a knowledge-base evolves in two ways: through changes in the field of knowledge, and through changes driven by the work that knowledge supports, I describe two problems: ‘translating’ theory into practice and the ‘positionality’ of those defining what counts as knowledge. The 1998 proposal outlined a work-driven framework in response to the former without fully acknowledging the latter: who is doing English language teaching, with whom, and to what ends. Revising the knowledge-base now depends on taking that positionality into account. With this in mind, I suggest three concepts – of teacher language use (English-for-Teaching), participation and agency, and professional confidence as a measure of outcome – as work-driven alternatives to our present thinking.

scholarly journals Discipline of Teaching English as an International Language – D-TEIL: perspectives for language teacher education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Moura ◽  
Brian Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Teaching Abroad ◽  
Educational Tourism ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
Development Of Language

The role international practicum placements have in the professional development of language educators is a contentious issue, with not all researchers in agreement that international practica are necessarily natural, neutral, or beneficial, to borrow from Pennycook’s (2007, 2012, 2017) stance on English language teaching internationally. Scholars like Santoro (2007, 2009), for instance, have expressed concern that international practica constitute a little more than a form of educational tourism that is potentially exploitative of the host communities. However, some program developers and researchers acknowledge and prioritize the value-laden and sociopolitical nature of practice teaching abroad and strive to facilitate ethical and critical practices (MORGAN; MARTIN, 2014; MARTIN; MORGAN, 2015, 2019). For that reason, this paper critically analyzes crossing borders with reference to the D-TEIL certificate program. The outcomes of an international practicum experience suggest changes towards considering the multiplicity of knowledge and aim at developing strategies for language teacher education programs towards ethical practices.

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES – VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phung Thi Kim Dung
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Competency Framework ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Teacher Competency ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Quality assurance is always a key issue in any education system. Among many approaches to enhance national education quality, the practice of designing and implementing competency frameworks for quality language teaching has been adopted in countries across the world. The recent passage of the English Teacher Competency Framework (ETCF) in Vietnam in 2012 reflects the government’s efforts in defining, promoting, and maintaining education quality. This thereby urges language teacher training programs in the country to meet the national teacher standards. But how can the outcomes of a program be formed and mapped to the national system of teacher standards? Is English Language Teacher Education Program (ELTE) introduced in 2012 at the University of Languages and International Studies – Vietnam National University, Hanoi (ULIS – VNU) aligned with the standards in the national ETCF published in December, 2012 by the Ministry of Education and Training? To answer this important question, a study has been conducted to investigate the level of alignment between the ELTE curriculum and the ETCF. By means of document analysis in which course syllabi are examined side by side with the competencies of the framework, the researcher has reached firm conclusions that there are still mismatches and gaps between the curriculum and the ETCF. Several competencies in the ETCF have not been properly addressed in the curriculum while some courses deal with competencies that are not exactly meant in the ETCF. The author then has proposed suggestions for curriculum designers to bring the courses and ETCF standards together to ensure full compatibility between them.

scholarly journals Assessment of English Learning in a Language Teacher Education Program

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Leonardo Herrera Mosquera ◽  
Lilian Cecilia Zambrano Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The purpose of this study is to characterize the assessment process in an English Language Teacher Education Program (ELTEP, hereafter) at a Colombian public university. Following a qualitative-descriptive approach, we identified the perceptions of teachers and students facing this process, reviewed some official documents such as course syllabi and test samples, and observed some classes to respond to the main inquiries of the present study. As data collection instruments we used interviews, questionnaires, field diaries, and documentary records, which allowed for the corresponding triangulation of the information. Once the information was collected, we proceeded to its respective analysis through a methodology of descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis with the support of a computer program for the codification and categorization of information. The results of this study allow us to conclude that in spite of the general guidelines proposed by the institution in terms of assessment of learning, and some good evaluative practices implemented by the teachers of the aforementioned Program, the consolidation of an approach is required. An approach understood as criteria and pedagogical procedures that guide both teachers and students, and one that promotes more formative, fair and democratic assessments.

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