scholarly journals CLIL teachers in Finland

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sotiria Pappa ◽  
Josephine Moate ◽  
Maria Ruohotie-Lehty ◽  
Anneli Eteläpelto
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The One ◽  
Intuitive Sense

Research on emotions has yielded many theoretical perspectives and many concepts. Yet, most scholars have focused on how emotions influence the transformation and maintenance of teacher identities in the field of teacher education and novice teachers, with little research being conducted on either experienced or foreign language teachers. This study explores emotions in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teachers’ work and their role in identity negotiation. The data is based on interviews with thirteen CLIL teachers working at six different primary schools around Finland, while the analysis draws on Meijers’ (2002) model of identity as a learning process. According to this model, a perceived boundary experience usually generates negatively accented emotions, which are negotiated in light of one’s professional identity by means of two complementary processes, i.e. intuitive sense-giving and discursive meaning-giving. The predominant emotional experiences that were identified were, on the one hand, hurry and frustration, and on the other hand, contentment and empowerment. Intuitive sense-giving mostly entailed reasoning, self-reliance, resilience, and empathy. Discursive meaning-giving mostly entailed the ideas of autonomy and of the CLIL team. This study highlights the need for sensitivity toward teachers’ emotions and their influence on teacher identity. It concludes with suggestions for theory, further research and teacher education.

Language teacher identity

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayriye Kayi-Aydar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Pedagogical Choices ◽  
Language Teacher Identity

The topic of language teacher identity receives strong attention in current scholarly literature. Understanding the complexities of identities that second/foreign language teachers construct is crucial because the ways teachers perceive themselves as professionals impact teacher development (e.g., Kanno & Stuart, 2011*), interactions with peers and colleagues (e.g., Kayi-Aydar, 2015*), pedagogical choices or classroom practices (e.g., Duff & Uchida, 1997*), and access to power and ownership of language (De Costa & Norton, 2017*; Varghese et al., 2016*), ultimately undergirding or undermining second/foreign language teaching (Varghese et al., 2016*).

scholarly journals Teacher education

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

05–88Haley, Marjorie Hall (George Mason U, USA). Implications of using case study instruction in a foreign/second language methods course. Foreign Language Annals (New York, USA) 37.2 (2004), 290–300.05–89Lozano, Albert S. (California State U, USA), Padilla, Amado M., Sung, Hyekyung & Silva Duarte M. A statewide professional program for California foreign language teachers. Foreign Language Annals (New York, USA) 37.2 (2004), 301–309.05–90Rilling, Sarah, Dahlman, Anne, Dodson, Sarah, Boyles, Claire & Pavant, Özlem (Kent State U, USA). Connecting CALL theory and practice in pre-service teacher education and beyond: processes and products. CALICO Journal (TX, USA) 22.2 (2005), 213–235.

Using Technologies to Develop Skills and Autonomy in Foreign Language Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Maugeri
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The One

This study focuses on the peculiarities that training courses mediated by technologies need to feature to positively affect the motivation and the building of metacognitive and didactic competences in teachers of foreign languages. What is especially highlighted is the fact that the advantages of these courses are closely related to the variables internal to the virtual environments that put the participants in control of their own learning process. With this in mind, two areas are taken into consideration, the constructive-interactional approach regarded as a model to design virtual learning environments on the one hand, and on the other the characteristics of e-learning tools and web-based tasks that help teachers acquire and refine metacognitive strategies, critical thinking and digital practices useful for their professional development.

Social Media and Foreign Language Teacher Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Jiahang Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher Education ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Media Integration ◽  
Actual Teaching

This chapter will focus on examining how instructors who are preparing foreign language teachers, both pre-service and in-service, integrate social media in their teaching practices to gain more insights on what beliefs these instructors hold and what differences and similarities between their beliefs and actual teaching practices about social media integration in foreign language teacher education. The chapter will first provide a literature review about the general beliefs that instructors held on the integration of social media and foreign language teacher education. Next, promising examples of the integration of social media in foreign language teacher education will be provided. Last but not least, affordances and challenges of the integration of social media and foreign language teacher education will be discussed, followed by implications and future directions.

scholarly journals Dyskurs edukacyjny w kształceniu przyszłych nauczycieli

Neofilolog ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Wiesława Burlińska Wiesława Burlińska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Feedback Session ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Teacher Trainee ◽  
The One ◽  
Theoretical Dimension

In the training of future foreign language teachers discourse appears mainly in its theoretical dimension in relation to text discourse connected with teaching various skills. Discourse, however, might be also useful in the context of Teaching Practice. On the one hand, the analysis of classroom discourse could be used in deeper formative evaluation of the trainee. Analysis of this evaluational dialogue could support not only the growth of teaching strategies but could also significantly contribute to the formation of a reflective attitude of the future teacher.In this paper I present an analysis of a feedback session which refers to a lesson conducted by a teacher trainee form Bydgoszcz Teacher Training College of Foreign Languages and answer the question how useful this element can be in the creation of the reflective practitioner’s attitude.

scholarly journals СТРУКТУРА КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ВИКЛАДАЧІВ ІНОЗЕМНИХ МОВ

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Сергій Галецький ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The One

The purpose of the article is to determine the structure of communicative competence of future foreign language teachers. In the process of research, a number of methods was used, among which: analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, comparison, monographic method, abstraction. The article substantiates the need to structure the communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages, highlights the main factors: 1) competence as a scientific and pedagogical category; 2) competence in general and communicative competence in particular are evaluative categories; 3) foreign language communicative competence requires comparative analysis within its structure. The peculiarities of the classifications of competencies offered by different scientists in relation to different areas of training are considered. The analysis of scientific sources on the problem of structuring the communicative competence of future specialists is carried out. The structure of communicative competence of future foreign language teachers is presented in the set of the following components: purposeful, which reflects the level of students’ interest in further growth of their level of communicative competence, on the one hand, and motivated mastery of modern information and communication technologies; cognitive-linguistic component, which is represented by a set of systematic knowledge of a foreign language and methods of its teaching, as well as a course in psychology and pedagogy of higher education; procedural and technological, which allows, on the one hand, development of communicative skills in the field of foreign language communication and teaching foreign languages, on the other – skills and abilities to use modern ICT in the process of learning (and further teaching) foreign languages; reflexive-evaluative, which involves the ability to assess the level of formation of communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages with the use of modern information and communication technologies, and to implement their own reflection of these processes. The identified and described components of communicative competence are correlated with the list of professional competencies of the specified specialist. We see the prospects for further research in the development and implementation in the practice of higher education institutions of the model of formation of communicative competence of future teachers of foreign languages.

scholarly journals Multilingualism is a trend in the development of modern Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Venera Kubieva ◽  
Aelita Sagiyeva ◽  
Aelita Sagiyeva ◽  
Zamira Salimgerey ◽  
Mira Baiseitova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
State Language

The development years of sovereign Kazakhstan show that polylingualism in the society not only infringes on the rights and dignity of the Kazakh language but also creates necessary conditions for its development and progress. According to the state program for language development, three languages' priority has been approved: Kazakh, Russian, and English. In addition to Kazakh as the State language and Russian as the language of inter-ethnic communication, English is an essential means of communication. The most important strategic task of Education in Kazakhstan is, on the one hand, to preserve the best Kazakh educational traditions and, on the other hand, to provide school leavers with international qualifications and develop their linguistic consciousness, based on mastering the State, native and foreign languages. Meanwhile, as specified in the concept of language policy of RK, the main difficulty in further realization of language policy in Kazakhstan is "creation of optimum language space of the state". On the other hand, we are talking about a professional gap in specialists' training, studying Russian and Kazakh language. Our study used the following methods: UNT 2015-2019, a survey of 1st-year students of ARGU named after K. Zhubanov. The results of the study can be used to develop a methodological complex for training foreign language teachers.

scholarly journals Forschungsbericht zum Profil eines „guten“ Fremdsprachenlehrers an der Hochschule

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Krystyna Mihułka ◽  
Joanna Chojnacka-Gärtner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Teacher Personality

The aim of this article is to present the profile of a ‘good’ foreign language teacher,which has been created on the basis of the comments made by about 230 students of modern languages at Polish institutions of higher education (colleges and universities) in two voivodeships of Poland, namely Podkarpackie Voivodeship and Wielkopolska Voivodeship. In this image, teacher personality traits, the majority of which are regarded as values not only in professional life (e.g. in the teaching profession), but also in personal life, have ranked the highest. Personality traits have overshadowed the other two groups of qualities, which foreign language teachers are also equipped with, i.e. didactic and glottodidactic ones. This study is part of a larger research project covering all types of schools in Poland (from primary schools, through middle and secondary schools, to colleges and universities)

scholarly journals Interdyscyplinarny charakter nauczania języka niemieckiego a zdobycie kompetencji w drugim przedmiocie jako szansa dla nauczyciela języka obcego drugiego na rynku pracy

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Niemiec-Knaś
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Teacher Education Reform ◽  
Current Perspective

The current perspective of teaching German as a second or foreign language is very important in the context of teacher education reform. This article addresses the questions associated with the notion of interdisciplinarity in foreign language teaching and teacher education. The key question is how to prepare foreign language teachers for the difficult labor market. Two aspects are relevant to a future German teacher: one is professional knowledge on teaching German as a foreign language, the second is the knowledge and ability of teaching the second school subject.

Professional development of future foreign language teachers during short-term exchanges

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Christian Helmchen ◽  
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Exchange Programs

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the self-perceived influence of short-term exchanges in schools abroad on future foreign language teacher’s professionalization, regarding professional values and pedagogy and practice. It grasps students’ changes in the perception of values attached to short-term exchanges in a professional setting. Design/methodology/approach In the scope of the European project SPIRAL, four prospective foreign language teachers attended a two-week internship at schools in another country. This paper explores, resorting to a combined content and discourse analysis, their letters of motivation (two months before the exchange), emails sent individually to the local coordinator (one week after the arrival) and a focus-group interview (two months after the arrival). Findings Future foreign language teachers change their focus when referring to the values attached to their experiences at schools abroad: from an initial focus on language skills improvement, they come to value the intercultural pedagogic experience they lived, focusing on differences and similarities between professional values and pedagogical practices across the contexts. Practical implications A generalized introduction of professional exchange programs, both in pre-service and continuing teacher education, could improve teachers’ perceptions of global structural, educational, political and curricular contexts and demands. It would also help the teachers decenter from educational practices and professional habitus taken for granted, and raise their awareness of what it means to be educated and professionalized in other contexts. Originality/value Few studies have focused on short-term exchanges and their impact on teachers’ professional development. The present paper highlights the pedagogical, intercultural and identity-building potential of short-term exchanges in foreign language teacher education.

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