scholarly journals RECONSTRUCTION OF IRANIAN ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN ONLINE CLASSES

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-879
Author(s):  
Raziyeh Fallah ◽  
Azizeh Chalak ◽  
Hossein Heidari Tabrizi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

Because of the Covid-19 outbreak, all academic institutions all over the world swiftly shifted to reconstitute the presentation of their courses that customarily took place on campus. This study explored the kind of online professional identities that English teachers in private language institutes constructed during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Additionally, it examined possible impacts of adopting online solutions on teachers’ performance and teaching skills and their perceptions of communities of practice and their effect on their PI in online classes during this period. The study was conducted on 35 English teachers, teaching English in language institutes in Yazd, Iran. The study followed a qualitative approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted individually and also in groups, to gain access to their lived experiences of running online classes. Results revealed four main characteristics that (re)constructed and affected teachers’ PI in online classes, namely, teachers’ role, competency and self-effectiveness, appreciation and connection, and future plans. The findings also revealed that streamlined communication and communities of practice were very beneficial in (re)constructing their changing identities in online classes. Membership in communities of practice was found to be an essential action to make teachers’ teaching skills and social learning better and share common experiences. The results showed that these aspects highly influence the teachers’ reconstruction of PI in a positive way in language institutes. Keywords: communities of practice, English as a foreign language, language institute, online professional identity, qualitative approach

Online Informal Language Learning Among Foreign Language Teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Violeta Jurkovič ◽  
Vita Kilar ◽  
Nives Lenassi ◽  
Darja Mertelj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
Insight Into

Today's online world provides foreign language users and learners with a multitude of opportunities to engage in a variety of language activities. A social group that can derive major benefits from the availability of online resources in different languages is foreign language teachers. Based on an ‘emic' approach, this study involves case studies of three experienced foreign language teachers that used diaries over a period of eight weeks to report on every instance of online use of their predominant foreign language and English. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain insight into online behaviour that was not specifically related to the eight-week period of diary-keeping. The results indicate that the online uses of the three participants, although they belong to the same social and age groups, display great variety in terms of online activities and the predominant language used to perform these activities.

Foreign language teachers’ intercultural competence and legitimacy during an international teaching experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Bournot-Trites ◽  
Sandra Zappa-Hollman ◽  
Valia Spiliotopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Abroad ◽  
International Teaching

Abstract Given the increase in international mobility opportunities for educators, analyzing how the experience of studying and teaching abroad benefits teachers is of utmost importance in a globalized educational system. Using Deardorff’s (2009) model of intercultural competence (IC), this study explores how a group of recently graduated Canadian foreign language teachers benefitted from a four-month international teaching experience (ITE). The following questions guided this investigation: In which ways did the ITE contribute to the participants’ IC development? How did the ITE affect the participants’ professional identity and sense of legitimacy? Data were collected, triangulated, and interpreted using thematic content data analysis. This study provides illustrations of the participants’ IC development across all components on Deardorff’s IC model, showing that properly scaffolded ITEs afforded the participants opportunities to develop their IC. The findings also show that the ITE of living and teaching abroad positively impacted their professional identity and feeling of legitimacy.

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 EFFICIENCY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF SIOP MODEL

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Demianenko ◽  
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Rymma Maiboroda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

As the title implies, a scientific paper reveals the issue of an efficiency of professional activity of foreign language teachers in higher education institutions in the context of SIOP model. The problem of this study is that in spite of the stressed importance of teaching skills, student teachers lack many of the English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching skills which may have a negative impact on their teaching performance that in turn affects their teaching self-efficacy. The methods of applying SIOP model and the effect of using SIOP model on developing EFL student teachers’ teaching skills are studied. It is emphasized that among the multiple factors that affect students’ achievement is teacher effectiveness. Thus, the challenge remains to improve and promote the effectiveness of teachers in an effort to increase students’ academic achievement. The positive and negative aspects of the education shift towards SIOP model are identified, the principles of enhancing innovative educational process effectiveness are revealed. It is worth noting that any professional development of foreign language teachers in higher education institutions must address specific knowledge and attitudes that are relevant to teaching foreign language learners. Teachers need to understand basic constructs of the second language development, the nature of language proficiency, the role of the first language and culture in learning, and the demands that mainstream education places on culturally diverse students. There is growing evidence that professional development approaches that are guided by teacher input and that view teacher learning as continual and transformative makes higher education institutions a better place for students and staff. The results indicated that introduction of SIOP model has opened up a number of problems associated with the introduction of such training services. It is stressed that the factors of SIOP model can guide limited English proficient students and suggest some useful strategies for language teachers to handle the students’ difficulties in language comprehension. It should be stressed that the introduction of SIOP model in modern educational process opens up wide horizons and unlimited possibilities for the efficiency of professional activity of foreign language teachers in higher education institutions, which have yet to be studied and mastered by modern pedagogical science.

scholarly journals PRZYGOTOWANIE DO TWÓRCZOŚCI PEDAGOGICZNEJ W KSZTAŁCENIU WSTĘPNYM NAUCZYCIELI JĘZYKÓW OBCYCH

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 205-217
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Jastrzębska
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Strategies

Creativity in teaching in the subject literature can be divided into three categories: the creative process, the product and the support of the development of creative activity in students. Not only is creativity important for the teacher today but also it is an essential part of his or her professional identity. In XXI century pedeutology [a branch of educational theory] the vision is of an open-minded and autonmous teacher, a reflective practitioner who is prepared to create his or her own new strategies to function in educational situations which are constantly changing. This educator effectively supports the personal development of the student and their process of learning. For this reason, creativity in teaching should also be one of the principal objectives of the professional training of the foreign language teachers, which in turn poses important questions. The notion of creativity in teaching, its scope and how it can be prepared for during the aca-demic training of the foreign language teachers are the subjects of the article.

scholarly journals English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Motivation: An Activity Theory Perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teymour Rahmati ◽  
Karim Sadeghi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Activity Theory ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Motivation Factors ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Practical Implications

Drawing upon Activity Theory, this mixed-methods study explored L2 teachers’ (de)motivation factors, motivation change, and voice in adopting strategies that could motivate L2 teachers. Semi-structured interviews, a motivational timeline diagram, and a researcher-developed scale were used to collect data from 226 in-service L2 teachers. The interview data collected from 15 participants were analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding using MAXQDA Analytics Pro version 12.3. Individual participants’ motivational timelines were also carried over into a collective diagram to illustrate motivational trajectories. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data collected from 211 teachers. The findings identified a number of (de)motivation factors and indicated that L2 teachers experienced changes in their motivation due to some primary and secondary level contradictions in their motivational activity systems. Moreover, L2 teachers’ commitment to their profession revealed the significant role of teachers’ beliefs and agency in resolving those contradictions. The theoretical and practical implications of the study were accordingly discussed.

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF SIOP MODEL ON SELF-EFFICACY AND TEACHING SKILLS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Demianenko
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers

The article reveals the issue of the effects of using SIOP model on self-efficacy and teaching skills of foreign language teachers. It is stressed that SIOP is an approach that can help English language learners to achieve academic success while gaining English language proficiency. It is worth noting that sheltered instruction offers the model for making academic material understandable and increasing the academic English language skills of learners through teaching. Attention has been paid to language skills that can be developed through collaboration and interaction. It has been concluded that the using SIOP model in modern educational process opens up unlimited possibilities for the foreign language teachers and students.Key words: teacher efficiency, professional training, professional competence, language proficiency, academic success.

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