Teacher development for autonomy: an exploratory review of language teacher education for learner and teacher autonomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borja Manzano Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teacher Autonomy ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher

scholarly journals The Connotations of Language Teacher Autonomy

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Ligang Han
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Teacher Autonomy ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Working Definition

With the research on the development of learner autonomy in foreign language education, teacher autonomy has become a hot topic in the research of foreign language teacher education. However, it is the most difficult question to define language teacher autonomy and any answer to it is likely to be subjective. On the basis of expounding upon the different definitions concerning the research on teacher autonomy in language teaching and learning, the focus of the present paper is to clarify the connotations of language teacher autonomy and a working definition is made.

scholarly journals English Language Teacher Education: Rewriting S-1 National Curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
M. Soenardi Djiwandono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Secondary School Teacher ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher

As part of an overall attempt to improve secondary school teacher education, a program has been launched to review and develop the national curriculum (KURNAS) of English language teacher education in Indonesia as a means to improve the quality of teachers of English. The new curriculum is at the same time intended to he a revision of the 1995 national curriculum supposedly in use now. For the purpose a team of three members was appointed by the Secondary School Teacher Development Project (nationally known as Proyek PGSM), comprising English teaching professionals from Universitas Negeri Malang. GAJAH MADA UNIVERSITY, and a senior high school teacher of English. Following a study of the existing documents related to ELT in Indonesia, an initial draft was written and gradually developed following a series of discussions and exchanges of ideas with teachers and professionals in the field of ELT. By the 3'. year of the appointment of the team, the draft for the new KURNAS comprising Books I, II, and III, has been completed and ready for a try-out. The try-out was intended to put into practice the Intensive Course (IC) Program as one of the most important components of the new KURNAS for the development of fluency in English as an essential basis for the preparation of competent high school teachers of English This article describes the background and the underlying principles of the curriculum revision, along with the classification and identification of courses, descriptions of courses their and syllabus outlines.

scholarly journals Pedagogy of Experience in Teacher Education for Learner and Teacher Autonomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávia Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Teacher Autonomy ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Narratives ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Graduate Teacher Education

Language teacher education programmes can promote autonomy-oriented change when they are based on a transformative rationale regarding learner and teacher development. This involves adopting an experience-based approach whereby dominant ideas and practices are problematized and opportunities are provided for teachers to learn about, experience, and inquire into autonomy-oriented language teaching practices. A proposal based on the analysis and construction of cases in post-graduate teacher education is presented, in which teachers analyse and design autonomy-oriented action research experiences and produce narratives of inquiry. Six teacher narratives are analysed, showing that experience-based teacher education may enhance teachers’ agency to challenge mainstream practices and explore learner-centred teaching, thus developing professional autonomy in seeking to promote learner autonomy.

Innovation in Teacher Development

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 260-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Widdowson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Teacher Role ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Micro Level

All of the issues dealt with in the preceding sections of this volume clearly carry with them implications for language teaching and call for a reconsideration of the teacher role, the nature of pedagogic competence which such a role requires, and how people might be most effectively prepared to enact it. In the case of national curricula, as discussed in Section 1 of this volume, whatever proposals are made at the macro-level of educational policy depend for their effectiveness on the interpretation by teachers at a micro-level of pedagogic practice and their abilities to carry out the proposals. So whatever is proposed for language education as policy carries clear implications for language teacher education as well. This might seem to be all too self-evident, but it is easy to cite instances where policy decisions have been made and proposals imposed without taking such implications into account.

Analyzing CMS affordances through the RAT framework for online language teacher education: A case study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Smidt ◽  
James Schumann ◽  
Karen Clement ◽  
Jesse Greenleaf ◽  
Mandy Nelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher

Student Teachers’ Learning and Professional Development in Second Language Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamile Hamiloğlu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teacher ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Second Language Teacher Education ◽  
Second Language Teacher

This article is a review on student teacher (ST) learning in second language teacher education (SLTE) and it aims to establish a context for ST learning for professional development in SLTE research and frame its contribution to the current research literature. To achieve this, it conducts an overview on concepts of interest, and it places in perspective some of the key previous findings relating to the research at hand. Broadly, it is to serve as a foundation for the debate over perspectives of second/foreign language (S/FL) student teachers’ (STs’) learning to teach through their professional development with reference to both coursework and practicum contexts.Keywords: student teacher learning, second language teacher education (SLTE), professional development

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