scholarly journals POLITYCZNA POPRAWNOŚĆ DYSKURSU EDUKACYJNEGO: NAUCZYCIEL JĘZYKA OBCEGO W PRZECIWDZIAŁANIU MOWIE NIENAWIŚCI

Neofilolog ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Hadrian Lankiewicz ◽  
Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Long Run

This paper presents an attempt to reconsider the concept of intercultural communication and related competences taking into account the fact that intercultural contacts may be motivated by racism and xenophobia. It is the outgrowth of the RADAR project (Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism) funded by the European Commission1. Here, we aim to apply its findings to the context of developing politically correct pedagogical discourse among prospective foreign language teachers. Ultimately, invoking the notion of critical ecological language awareness (Lankiewicz, 2015) and metalinguistic awareness (Karpińska-Musiał, 2015), we offer to supplement the intercultural component of teacher education with the element of critical linguistics, which may help would-be teachers, in the first place, to be more aware language users as such, not to commit verbal offences, and, in the long-run, to perform the role of transformative intellectuals (Kumaravadivelu, 2012), thus contributing to the quality of life in the globalization era.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOCICAL APPROACHES TO THE FORMATIONOF PROFESSIONAL METACOMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN A SPECIALIZED SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Z.K. Zhanazarova ◽  
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T.A. Kulgildinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Specialized School ◽  
Basic Approaches

The article discusses the scientific and methodological platform for the formation of professional metacommunicative competence of foreign language teachers in a specialized school. The content of the article reveals the basic approaches and principles of the formation of professional metacommunicative competence, which refers to the ability of students to use a foreign language for educational purposes as a tool for the development of foreign language education in a professional metalanguage aspect. The features of the component composition in determining the level of formation of professional metacommunicative competence of students are revealed. The tactical goal of training a foreign language teacher for specialized classes are described, which provides for improving the quality of training for students with the goal of mastering such technologies that give the prospect to a future teacher the ability to speak a meta- branch language in various working conditions.

scholarly journals Building professional learning communities of foreign language teachers in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Qiufang Wen ◽  
Hong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Learning Communities ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Leadership Management

In recent decades there has been increasing interest in identifying the critical features of effective professional learning communities (PLCs). This identification is useful for evaluating the quality of a PLC, but not for building one. This study aims at describing a conceptual model for developing a new PLC, illustrating its application with an example. The model is explained in terms of four constitutive elements (PARTICIPANTS, OBJECTIVES, MEDIATORS, and MECHANISM), and their interactive relations. The development of a PLC of foreign language teachers (PLC-FLTs) at Beijing Foreign Studies University is used to illustrate how the model can function successfully. The illustration is coupled with a discussion of the PLC’s decades of experience in collective leadership, management of the four elements, and tips for tackling various challenges in keeping the PLC going.

“Das bin ich...”: Corporeality and early German language education in (Slovak) kindergarten

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondrej Kaščák ◽  
Branislav Pupala ◽  
Iveta Kovalčíková
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Language Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
German Language ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition

AbstractThis paper, based on ethnographically obtained data, discusses German language acquisition at an early age: the discovery of the interconnection between language and corporeality is the key component of the analysis based on videostudies. The body—conceived as an intermediary and content element of education, becomes an essential base for foreign language acquisition. This will be documented by tangible data and subsequent theoretical analysis with respect to relevant terminology of cultural anthropology (Körper and Leib). The principle of corporeality is further used as a means of perceiving German language education in the sense of the so called language propaedeutic concept and as a means of the legitimisation of particular qualification and the role of foreign language teachers in preschool institutions.

scholarly journals A Study of Self-development of EFL Teachers in the Universities of Sichuan Province in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 766
Author(s):  
Lina Guan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Sichuan Province ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
College English ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Service Training

The quality of foreign language college English teachers will affect the quality of college English teaching. This article investigated 80 college foreign language teachers of SiChuan Province and writer found college English teachers had great pressures. They were eager to get the in-service training and they should be taught how to have self-development. Teachers should co-operate each other and break the isolation among them.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MEDIA EDUCATION IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Barkasi ◽  
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Tetiana Filippyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
The Future

The aim of the article is to study the advantages of media education technologies in the training of future foreign language teachers due to the fact that the current stage of society highlights the education of the individual who must effectively select and concentrate information, process it and create new, separate useful from unnecessary ways and programs for their solution. Therefore, today it is not enough to use video, audio, press and information and communication technologies when teaching future foreign language teachers only for the development of oral and written speech. It is necessary to pay attention to the development of visual and critical media literacy of students, based on the main objectives of media education. The article considers the problems of formation of professional competence of the future teacher of a foreign language by means of media education. The author analyzes the principles and functions of media education as the main components of professional media education of the future foreign language teacher. The peculiarities of the introduction and rational use of the latest media educational technologies in the professional training of future foreign language teachers are revealed. Their influence on the educational process and the need to update the role of the teacher in modern conditions of pedagogical activity are analyzed. The relevance of the article is determined by the dynamic trends in the introduction of media in the educational process. The integrated use of media education technologies motivates future foreign language teachers to master their profession, gives them the opportunity to acquire and develop new skills and abilities. The inclusion of the study of media education technologies in the initial program of the Faculty of Foreign Languages will promote the rational use of media education in future professional activities, critical evaluation of information, the ability to analyze and recognize media texts, and learn about new trends in teaching their subject. Improving knowledge in the field of media educational technologies, acquiring knowledge of pedagogical development of personality and awareness of the role and place of teachers in the educational process provides an opportunity to intensify and motivate student learning activities and gain initial pedagogical experience.

Students’ Strategic Reactions to the Role of Native Language as a Medium of Instruction in English Classrooms

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soheila Kabiri Samani ◽  
Mehry Haddad Narafshan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Speaking Skill

Code-switching is the use of two languages simultaneously or interchangeably and is commonly seen with hesitation in foreign language learning classes. Hence, second or foreign language teachers and researchers have been concerned in decreasing the level of code-switching in the EFL classes. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating students’ attitude towards teachers’ code-switching. In order to conduct the study, the quantitative research method was used. The data was collected from a sample of 219 students (male and female, with different age level) who were selected randomly for the purpose of the study. Through a questionnaire, the students’ attitude was investigated. The results revealed that students held a positive attitude towards teacher’s code-switching. More than half of the students believed teachers had better code-switching to enhance students' understanding. In addition, they believed that code-switching was more useful to teach grammar and writing skills as compared with teaching speaking skill.

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