scholarly journals ÉVALUATION FORMATIVE PAR LE BIAIS DE PRATIQUES « LERNEN DURCH LEHREN » DESTINÉES AUX ÉTUDIANTS DE NIVEAU AVANCÉ

Neofilolog ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Halina Widła
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Third Language ◽  
Learning By Teaching ◽  
Multimedia Resources ◽  
Knowledge Of Learners

This article illustrates ways of assessing students’ work in the Multimedia master’s seminar and compares the benefits of formative and summative evaluations in this context. During the Multimedia seminar, prospective foreign language teachers and translators create their own multimedia resources, which fill a gap in teaching materials on offer. This allows the students to become specialists in particular areas. This article illustrates ways of assessing students’ work in the Multimedia master’s seminar and compares the benefits of formative and summative evaluations in this context. Students appreciated the importance of formative assessment, recognizing its advantage over summative evaluation. Systematic semi-autonomous work subjected to continual verification proved to be key to the achievement of the desired skills. The results also demonstrated how knowledge of learners’ first and second languages is advantageous, as it allows teachers to more accurately identify and evaluate the difficulties learners face during the acquisition of a third language. These unusual forms of learning by teaching require considerable time and sufficient motivation but notably improve the quality of the learning process.

scholarly journals Implementation of IT Tools as a Method of Improving Language and Communication Skills of Bi- and Trilingual Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Halina Widła
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Second Languages ◽  
Third Language ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Language Competencies

This article gives some examples of students’ systematic semi-autonomous work in the multimedia master’s seminar, which enhances their language competencies as well as strictly technical skills. The theoretical background, based on the results of research carried out by the author in 2005–2019, demonstrates how knowledge of learners’ first and second languages is advantageous during the acquisition of a third language. Seeing that this process is individual (every learner has his or her different “linguistic biography”), it is difficult take this fact into account in the coursebooks. E-learning courses, which allow students to work in semi-autonomy, become helpful in this situation. Accommodating the needs of biand trilingual students, prospective foreign-language teachers and translators create their own multimedia resources that fill gaps in the didactic offerings. Moreover, the unusual forms of learning by teaching (LdL – from the German phrase Lernen durch Lehren) improve the quality of the learning process, helping students achieve the desired language and communication skills.

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 ◽  
◽  
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.

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 O efeito retroativo de um exame de proficiência para professores

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (72) ◽  
pp. 832
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Nascimento de Queiroz ◽  
Douglas Altamiro Consolo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
English Language Teachers

<p>O presente artigo aborda questões relativas ao efeito retroativo em torno da experiência durante a aplicação do Exame de Proficiência para Professores de Língua Estrangeira (EPPLE). O debate está ancorado nos seguintes princípios: a) a avaliação no ensino e aprendizagem de línguas; b) a proficiência linguístico-comunicativo-pedagógica (PLCP) de professores de línguas; e c) as experiências materializadas como efeitos retroativos na prática avaliativa. A abordagem qualitativa auxilia na interpretação das narrativas de dois professores de Língua Inglesa (LI). A análise interpretativa dos aspectos discursivos indica que os impactos possibilitam o resgate da consciência reflexiva inter-relacionada com as memórias da formação profissional, assim tornando a experiência concreta e válida para o processo de socialização dos conhecimentos específicos do contexto pedagógico de professores de LI.</p><p>Formação de Professores; Língua Inglesa; Proficiência Linguístico-Comunicativo-Pedagógica; Exame de Proficiência.</p><p> </p><p>El efecto retroactivo de un examen de competencia para profesores</p><p>El presente artículo aborda temas relativos al efecto retroactivo en torno a la experiencia durante la aplicación del Examen de Competencia para Profesores de Lengua Extranjera (EPPLE). El debate se basa en los siguientes principios: a) la evaluación en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de idiomas; b) la competencia lingüístico-comunicativo-pedagógica (PLCP) de profesores de idiomas; y c) las experiências materializadas como efectos retroactivos en la práctica evaluativa. El abordaje cualitativo auxilia en la interpretación de las narrativas de dos profesores de Lengua Inglesa (LI). El análisis interpretativo de los aspectos discursivos indica que los impactos posibilitan el rescate de la consciencia reflexiva interrelacionada con las memorias de la formación profesional, haciendo de esta forma que la experiencia sea concreta y válida para el proceso de socialización de los conocimientos específicos del contexto pedagógico de profesores de LI.</p><p>Formación de Profesores; Lengua Inglesa; Competencia Lingüístico-Comunicativo-Pedagógica; Examen de Competencia.</p><p> </p><p>Washback effect of an application of a proficiency examination for teachers</p><p>This paper deals with some issues related to the analysis of two narratives written by in-service and pre-service English language teachers, following an application of a Proficiency Examination for Foreign Language Teachers [Exame de Proficiência para Professores de Língua Estrangeira – EPPLE] in a public university located in the western Amazon. The discussion is based on the following principles: (i) the implications for assessment in the teaching and learning of foreign languages related to the reconstruction and promotion of socialized practices; (ii) the quality of a linguistic, communicative and pedagogical proficiency of foreign language teachers underlying the elements of validity and reliability of EPPLE; and (iii) the intersection of experiences materialized as washback effects from a process of assessment practices. The analysis of the teachers’ discourses indicates an intersection between teachers’ memories and professional experiences.</p><p>Teacher Training; English Language; Linguistic, Communicative and Pedagogical Proficiency; Proficiency Exam.</p>

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION MULTILINGUALISM POLICY ON THE TRAINING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 75-80
Author(s):  
Larisa Koroliova
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

The article highlited the European policy of multilingualism and multiculturalism of language education in European countries. Besides the article also deals with directions of joint activities of countries of the European Area in the organization of training foreign language teachers, the formation of uniform professional qualification standards for determining the professional definition of foreign language teachers, strategies and practical steps for the implementation of projects in the field of training foreign language teachers funded by the European Union and participation of European countries, in paticular Romania, in these projects. The European Union constantly emphasizes the fact that every citizen should be able to speak in his native language plus two other European languages, stresses the need to promote of linguistic diversity and the motivation of European citizens to learn less widely used languages and improve the quality of teaching foreign languages in educational establishments at different levels and focus its efforts to realize these ideas through the implementation of projects and programs that it has funded. The author focuses on the fact that Romania like all European countries is actively involved in the numerous projects and programs offered by the European Union as one of the priority areas of the Romanian Government is the quality of education at all levels and brings it in conformity with European standards. At the end of the article, the author concludes that the multilingual policy of the European Union has a certain influence on the training of foreign language teachers at the Romania Universities. The author also sums up that due to the participation in various educational projects and programs financed by the European Union among higher education institutions aimed at the development of multilingualism and multiculturalism of language education, the professional level of foreign languages teachers in Romania is increasing.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-202
Author(s):  
Y. STRYZHAK
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Orientation ◽  
The Future

The study is comprehensively characterized professional competence as a basis for professional training of future foreign language teachers; new approaches to the system of professional teacher training are outlined; the model of professional competence of future foreign language teachers is presented. The future teacher is the implementer of the state policy on the development and formation of the younger generation. The professionalism and quality of professional activity of the future generation largely depends on teacher training.  The analysis of scientific literature and research on the issues of professional training of future teachers of foreign languages allowed determining the features and essence of their professional and pedagogical orientation. Under the professional and pedagogical orientation of the future foreign language teacher we understand the integral professional quality of the individual, which implies a constant interest in the profession of foreign language teacher, the need for systematic and continuous work on themselves and their own communication skills, desire to constantly communicate with students and teach them foreign language communication. It has been concluded that it is necessary to improve the professional training of future teachers and strengthen the role of teachers in society. One of the important factors in this is the definition of requirements for future teachers, for their professional training, which should be focused on multifaceted future professional activities.

scholarly journals STUDIA FILOLOGICZNE, PRZYGOTOWANIE DO ZAWODU NAUCZYCIELA A WYZWANIA CODZIENNOŚCI

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
Mirosław Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
Effective Teaching And Learning

Becoming a foreign language teacher involves meeting a range of requirements which have mainly been specified in the Decree of the Minister for Science and Higher Education issued on January 17th, 2012, concerning the standards that have to be complied with in teacher education. Education of this kind is still most frequently offered in the course of BA or MA programs in foreign languages, with the crucial caveat that, primarily as a result of decreasing demand for foreign language teachers, this component has been eliminated in many institutions of higher education or students are required to pay for an additional module providing such training. It is assumed that on completion of a BA or MA program as well as obtaining credits for the required courses focusing on pedagogy, a student will have the requisite qualifications to teach a particular foreign language at appropriate educational levels. This implies that, by this time, he or she should have acquired the necessary knowledge, skills and competences, both in the foreign language and in psychological and pedagogical issues, which can ensure effective teaching and learning. The paper aims to subject such assumptions to critical scrutiny, demonstrate that they blatantly fail to take into account the real situation in Polish education, as well as offer some tentative proposals that could enhance the quality of foreign language teacher training in our country.

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 Resiliency in Education: The Case of Foreign Language Teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Fatima Valieva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Professional Stress ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Senior Students

The article covers the basics of resilience and the factors promoting sustainability within the field of education. With escalating demands on teachers in terms of increasing social pressures and expectations regarding quality of pedagogical provision, ’resilience’ is a topical area of research. The main objectives of the study include ascertaining how prone to professional stress are educators compared to other professionals, pointing out the areas where the major mismatches lie, and revealing the factors influencing professional adjustment in the sphere of foreign language teaching. The correlation and interdependence of resilience, emotional intelligence, social support and other individual factors have been studied using a valid sample of specialists in language teaching: resilience was considered one of the central, individual protective factors, as well as a serious prerequisite for a successful and fulfilling life. The sample of the study comprised three groups: first, senior students (future teachers); second, university academics (senior professors) and thirdly, university junior specialists. To analyze the results, statistical and correlation methods were used: different types of interdependence were indicated through regression analysis, the Kruskal–Wallis test, violin plot, and others.

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