scholarly journals Professional Training of a Foreign Language Teacher for Pre-School and Primary Education: Axiological Dimension

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-68
Author(s):  
Z.N. Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
Primary School Age

The article provides an analysis of many years of theoretical and practical research in the field of foreign language teachers’ professional training. Special attention is drawn to the importance of not only the foreign language teacher methodological training but also to his value orientations that are necessary in the professional sphere. The issue of the axiological component of education is covered up from the point of view of primary foreign language education goals which should be reflected not only in the foreign language acquisition process by preschool and primary school age children but also in the qualitative training of teachers who are able to form a child’s moral values, personal qualities and ability to communicate in a foreign language as a phenomenon of culture and as a knowledge tool of his surroundings.

scholarly journals Axiological aspects of foreign language teachers’ preparation for primary foreign language education

2021 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 08010
Author(s):  
Natalya Galskova ◽  
Zinaida Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spiritual Ability

The article outlines axiological basis of professional training of English teachers, capable to develop communicative, cognitive and moral development of junior schoolchildren when they master a new language and facts from a different culture. The article refers both to the history of methodological research, in which the issues of the formation of professionally significant skills of a foreign language teacher were studied, and to the modern problems of the formation of the teacher’s personality and his readiness for pedagogical activity. The article examines linguistic values and substantiates a new goal of professional training of a future foreign language teacher for the primary stage of secondary school, taking into account the priority of his spiritual ability and recognition of professionalism as its fundamental characteristic. The authors associate the formation of professionalism with the disclosure of the personal potential of the future teacher, which is an integrative phenomenon, the components of which are the basis for determining the new content of teacher training as a person capable of realizing the educational and developmental potential of primary foreign language education.

scholarly journals Interculturality in English Language Teaching – A Small Study with Portuguese Teachers

e-TEALS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Ana Ponce de Leão
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Teachers Perceptions

Abstract UNESCO and many other organisations worldwide have been working on approaches in education to develop tolerance, respect for cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue. Particularly, the Council of Europe has laid out guiding principles in several documents to promote intercultural competence, following Byram’s and Zarate’s efforts in integrating this important component in language education. The commitment to developing the notion of intercultural competence has been so influential that many countries, e.g., Portugal, have established the intercultural domain as a goal in the foreign language curricula. However, this commitment has been questioned by researchers worldwide who consider that action is needed to effectively promote intercultural competence. The research coordinated by Sercu, for example, suggests that, although foreign language teachers are willing to comply with an intercultural dimension, their profile is more compatible with that of a traditional foreign language teacher, rather than with a foreign language teacher, who promotes intercultural communicative competence. In this study, I propose to examine teachers’ perceptions and beliefs about intercultural communicative competence in a cluster of schools in Portugal and compare these findings with Sercu’s study. Despite a twelve-year gap, the present study draws similar conclusions.

“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 Teaching Russian abroad: the concept of additional professional training

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Elena Mikhailovna Markova ◽  
Alina Aleksandrovna Pozdnyakova ◽  
Elena Romualdovna Laskareva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Training System ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

The importance of a qualitative renewal of the additional professional training system for Russian language teachers of foreign schools gives rise to many problems of both theoretical and organizational nature. The following ones are particularly relevant: 1) the determination of professional deficits of teaching staff; 2) the identification of gaps in the current system of additional professional training for Russian as a foreign language teachers; 3) the correction of the identified professional deficiencies through additional educational programs on various directions and degrees of complexity. The solution to these problems is impossible in the absence of the concept of additional professional training system for Russian as foreign language teachers, formed on the basis of an ethno-oriented approach, which involves the development of models of advanced training for teaching specific ethnic groups. Such a concept can be implemented through a system of diagnostic and educational events held remotely in a controlled segment of the Internet (on the platform of a specific educational institution or its autonomous substructure). Since the organization of additional professional training for Russian as foreign language teachers of foreign schools is closely related to the type of educational institution in which the teacher works (national state, national non-state, weekend school, schools under the Russian Orthodox Church, etc.), it is advisable to consider the educational content of advanced training programs from two points of view: 1) from the point of view of the requirements for the training of the contingent of students, 2) from the point of view of the requirements for the personality of the teacher of a particular educational institution. Taking these factors into account is important, since it directly affects the nature of the training content and the technologies used. This study offers the options for modular educational programs for additional training in three fields of activity (subject, organizational, methodological, psychological): 1) the program “Difficult cases of Russian grammar and Russian word usage”, aimed at eliminating gaps in the field of subject competences; 2) the program “Problems of teaching the Russian language in a limited language environment”, aimed at eliminating gaps in the organizational and methodological sphere; 3) the program “Psychological foundations of organizing educational activities in a foreign language”, aimed at eliminating gaps in the field of psychological competencies. Sequential remote implementation of modules included in additional professional training programs will provide access to up-to-date methodological knowledge for a large number of teachers of Russian as a foreign language.

scholarly journals CLIL Approach to Legal English Courses: Analysis of Practice and Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Elena Grigorievna Vyushkina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Foreign Language Acquisition ◽  
System A ◽  
Question Formation ◽  
Language Teaching Methods

Summary The EU consistent policy on languages promotes new language teaching methods and encourages pedagogical experiments at all levels of education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) being one of language education innovations. Over the past twenty years CLIL proved to be an effective method in foreign language acquisition and there is considerable evidence of successful CLIL implementation in secondary schools in many European countries. Speaking about foreign languages in higher education, it is necessary to note that abbreviation EMI – English as a Medium of Instruction – is mentioned much more often than CLIL. One of the reasons for lower CLIL implementation at a tertiary level is the complexity of subject contents taught at universities. Furthermore, if a student’s major is law, the issue becomes more challenging because of the differences in common law and civil law systems. However, one of lawyer’s professional competences directly connected with language learning is a communicative competence. Such spheres of lawyer’s activity as client counseling, negotiation, and mediation rely heavily on listening, paraphrasing, reframing, summarising, and skills of question formation regardless of what legal system a lawyer belongs to. These so-called soft skills can be developed within a foreign language course but it seems more rational to master them through a professional medium. Therefore, law teachers should be engaged in designing a substantive part of course materials, while language teachers are to be in charge of communicative competence development. The present study aims at analyzing the practice and experience in designing and implementing an original optional course “Client Consultation in English”. This course can serve as an illustration of a CLIL Legal English course and its structure can be used as an example to follow while designing similar courses.

The conceptual-technological model of formation of future foreign language teachers’ awareness of the monitoring activity

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Ірина РОЖЕЛЮК ◽  
Наталія НАГОРНА ◽  
Ірина АНДРЕЙКОВА
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
New Development ◽  
Educational Tests ◽  
Monitoring Activity

This article is devoted to the elucidation of the essence and results of a pedagogical experiment focused on the formation of future foreign language teachers’ awareness for monitoring activity. The pedagogical conditions which are believed to enhance the effectiveness of the process in question, - have been revealed therein. Among the said conditions, the following ones have been determined as leading: the intensification of the role of the pedagogical monitoring and organization of relevant pedagogical educational researchbased activities within the framework of pedagogical disciplines studied; the support of professional development of a teacher as the participant, organizer and facilitator of quality foreign language education and multi-cultural upbringing. Based on of the above-mentioned pedagogical conditions a conceptual model named “Formation of Future Foreign Language Teachers’ Awareness for Monitoring Activity in the Process of Their Professional Training” has been elaborated. The said model functions as a unity of the following components: motivational, didactic-strategic, organizational, content-technological, evaluative. The results of this model’s approbation in the process of the pedagogical experiment carried out have proved its high effectiveness. Furthermore, we have been able of revealing the essence of future foreign language teachers' awareness for monitoring activity being an important professional new development of their personality as consciously acting organizers, dispatchers and facilitators of quality foreign language teaching, deemed important for the future teachers' capability to plan, implement, correct and assess the results achieved during relevant educational tests carried out.

Formation of Methodical Competence of Students at Seminars on the Methodology of Teaching a Foreign Language

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Natalia Aleksandrovna Zhukova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Activity Component ◽  
Definition Of

Introduction. The article updates the methodical training of future foreign language teachers as part of their professional training. The content of methodical training of students is revealed through the concept of methodical competence. The purpose of the article is to clarify the definition of the methodical competence of a foreign language teacher, to present its structure, to reveal the features of its formation at seminars on the methodology of teaching a foreign language. Methodology and research methods. The methodological foundations of the research are the ideas of communicative and socio-cultural approaches to teaching foreign languages, competence-based, contextual, and personal-activity approaches. Results. The following components of methodical competence are highlighted: the personal component; the cognitive and informational component; the operational and technological component; the activity component. This article reveals the possibilities of seminars for the formation of methodical competence of students. The author gives detailed recommendations based on her textbook on the methodology of teaching foreign languages to teachers on the successful formation the components of this competence. Conclusion. The effectiveness of the formation of methodical competence of future teachers of a foreign language largely depends on the correct organization of seminars on the methodology of teaching a foreign language.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING MEDIATIVE COMPETENCE AS SOFT SKILLS COMPONENT OF FUTURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Hanna Piskurska ◽  
Oksana Popova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Training Exercises

The article focuses on the problem of developing soft skills of the students majoring in Foreign Language Teaching. The article aims at designing a set of exercises for developing the mediative competence as a component of future foreign language teachers’ soft skills. The following groups of exercises have been selected and described: non-communicative analytical, receptive, partially analytical mediative, and purely communicative. It is concluded that the mediative competence of future foreign language teachers is acquired by the integration of all types of training exercises. Keywords: professional competence; soft skills; mediative competence; meditative activity; professional training; foreign language teacher; student; exercise.

scholarly journals Professional Training of Foreign Language Teachers in the USA: Based on the Experience of Lewis University

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Maryna Ikonnikova
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Language Students ◽  
Foreign Language Students

Abstract The paper deals with professional training of future foreign language teachers in the USA based on the experience of Lewis University. As evidenced by research findings, the scope of foreign language education in the USA is rather broad, since they attempt to promote both traditional and critical languages in the context of developing translingual and transcultural competences. Based on the example of Lewis University, we have characterized professional training of future foreign language teachers, who major in the Spanish language. The obtained results prove that the programme content is extremely practice-oriented and designed to fulfill personal needs of every student; the programme curriculum is not overwhelmed with theoretical paradigms and foreign language students can participate in different activities and fully comprehend the realities of schools and the education process. It has been found that while mastering the programme, they are able to acquire the professional knowledge, skills and abilities they will definitely need in practice. The positive aspects of Lewis University’s foreign language education programme have been determined. They are the following: practice-oriented approach to professional training of future foreign language teachers; an optimal selection of professional education courses and electives, as well as effective clinical practice; the assessment and evaluation of foreign language students’ results during and after undergoing clinical practice from different perspectives, namely, organization, content, specifics; the implementation of the inclusive education component into the content of the programme curriculum; the fulfillment of different personal, learning and occupational needs of future foreign language students. It has been concluded that the outlined positive aspects of American experience in providing professional training of future foreign language teachers based on the experience of Lewis University can be implemented into the system of foreign language education in Ukraine in order to enhance quality and efficiency of these specialists’ training at Ukrainian higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Implementation of the meta-subject approach in the process of foreign language training of future teachers at a pedagogical university

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202
Author(s):  
A. Kabbassova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
General Strategy ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Second Year

A future teacher who speaks foreign language is in more demand by school today than ever before. Pedagogical universities change their activities to meet the school educational system’s requirements. The need of English for future teachers is determined by the necessity of subject activity. In the process of teaching the teacher not only stimulates the mastering of the basics of science, but also creates the opportunity to develop learning skills, critically realize their experience of foreign language usage. First and second year students, while learning foreign language, improve their speaking skills, learn to use the best way to build their learning activity. The goal of the next step of professional training is to master teaching methods, which will let the students use their foreign language knowledge. Teaching English on the basis of meta-subject approach principles will allow to solve these problems. The article is devoted to the analysis of solving the problems of foreign language education of future teachers. The author suggests using the meta-subject potential of a foreign language as a general strategy of foreign language education. The experimental pedagogical work carried out at the Pavlodar Pedagogical University allows us to draw a conclusion about the effectiveness of the proposed ideas.

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