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Context-related Beliefs about L2 Language Learning and Teaching of the Millennial Pre-service EFL Teachers as a Prognosis for Future Classroom Actions

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Szyszka M.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2023

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vol. 9

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issue 1

1-20

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The qualitative study presented in this paper aimed to collect beliefs about learning and teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) from individual representatives of the generation frequently referred to as the millennials. The participants were 47 pre-service EFL trainee teachers from four socio-cultural contexts: Finnish, Israeli, Polish, and Spanish. Their voices have been considered because beliefs are dynamically related to actions and soon the millennial EFL teachers may implement them in the course of their teaching. The contextual approach, followed in this research, provided opportunities for discussing similarities and differences in the beliefs of Finnish, Israeli, Polish, and Spanish pre-service teachers. The identified similarities lead to outlining a tentative picture of a universal, future, post-pandemic EFL classroom.

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KSZTAŁTOWANIE POSTAWY OTWARTOŚCI INTERKULTUROWEJ NAUCZYCIELI JĘZYKÓW OBCYCH W ŚWIETLE ZALECEŃ UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ I NA PRZYKŁADZIE ASYSTENTURY COMENIUSA

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Grabowska A.

Neofilolog

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2013

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issue 40/2

265-277

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Learning a foreign language is not only limited to the development of linguistic competences. Learning a language also means learning about the culture and life of another country, which very often may be a future destination for educational or professional purposes for foreign language learners. Teaching intercultural competences within foreign language education is a subject of academic research. Official documents of the European Union, which affect the national language education strategies, also confirm the importance developing intercultural competence. Experts agree that foreign language teachers play a crucial role in building intercultural awareness of their pupils. Thus, in order to act as intercultural mediators they should acquire intercultural skills and competences themselves. This article analyses the development of future foreign language teachers’ intercultural competences as a consequence of their participation in Comenius Assistantship, a component of the Lifelong Learning Programme.

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A Habermasian Approach to the Examination of Language Teachers’ Cognitive Interests

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Villalobos-Buehner M.

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition

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2021

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vol. 7

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issue 1

11-31

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Die Ausbildung zum Fremdsprachenlehrer umfasst sowohl theoretische und praktische Kurse, als auch pädagogische Praktika in der Schule (engl. practicum). Es wird erwartet, dass künftige Lehrer bei der Lehrtätigkeit während Praktikumszeit ihr konzeptionelles und praktisches Wissen einsetzen. Allerdings bei der Beurteilung ihrer Bereitschaft zur Lehrerarbeit wird lediglich das konzeptionelle Wissen in Betracht gezogen, während ihr Vorstellungssystem bezüglich Fremdsprachenlernen und -lehren ganz unberücksichtigt bleibt. Das erwähnte Vorstellungssystem bietet nicht nur einen wichtigen Einblick darin, wie sie ihr unterrichtsbezogenes Wissen organisieren, sondern weist auch auf ihre Offenheit für neue pädagogische Methoden hin. Im vorliegenden Artikel wird eine auf Grundlage der Theorie von Jürgen Habermas zu kognitiven Interessen konzipierte Untersuchung dargestellt, die sich auf die Analyse der Vorstellungen von neun künftigen Fremdsprachenlehrern zum Abschluss ihres methodischen Kurses bezieht. Die Analyse basiert auf Reflexionsessays betreffend un ter anderem kognitive Interessen der künftigen Lehrer sowie die Unterrichtsmethoden und Leistungsbeurteilung im Fremdsprachenlehren. Aus der Analyse ergibt sich, dass man bei der Bildung künftiger Lehrer die vorstellungsfördernden und auf den Verselbstständigungsprozess bezogenen Erfahrungen berücksichtigen sollte. Dies könnte die künftigen Lehrer bei den Bestrebungen unterstützen, ihre Autonomie im Bereich der Bewältigung von schweren Umweltbedingungen zu entwickeln oder die neuen pädagogischen Methoden umzusetzen.

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Language teacher educators train pre-service teachers in numerous theories and pedagogical practices of language learning and language teaching. They expect that their student teachers will translate this conceptual and practical knowledge into action during their practicum. However, in the process of determining pre-service teachers’ readiness for the field experience and the profession in general, methods classes measure only their conceptual knowledge and omit looking at their student teachers’ belief system about language teaching and learning. This belief system is a strong indicator of how the students organize their knowledge for application (Borg, 2003) and may help teacher educators gauge students’ read ness in the use of new pedagogies that these pre-service teachers may not have experienced before. Using two reflective essays and a piece of authentic assessment as instruments to gather data, as well as Jürgen Habermas’s theory on cognitive interests as a framework to explore the espoused beliefs of nine pre-service language teachers at the end of a methodscourse, this qualitative study addressed the following questions: What levels of cognitive interests do the nine pre-service world language and ESL teachers exhibit prior to student teaching? To what extent do the students’ levels of cognitive interests change during the methods course called Teaching a Second Language? What are the most common cognitive interests regarding such areas of teaching performance, such as methodology and assessment among the participants? The results show that the nine pre-service teachers held mostly technicaland some practical cognitive interests at the beginning of the semester. In the end, most of the participants held practical interests, and three out of the nine pre-service teachers held elementary emancipatory beliefs. One pedagogical recommendation is to include experiences in the training of pre-service teachers that promote emancipatory beliefs that could support teachers in their pursuit of transforming challenging social conditions while examining and adopting new pedagogies.

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Context-related Beliefs about L2 Language Learning and Teaching of the Millennial Pre-service EFL Teachers as a Prognosis for Future Classroom Actions

KSZTAŁTOWANIE POSTAWY OTWARTOŚCI INTERKULTUROWEJ NAUCZYCIELI JĘZYKÓW OBCYCH W ŚWIETLE ZALECEŃ UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ I NA PRZYKŁADZIE ASYSTENTURY COMENIUSA

A Habermasian Approach to the Examination of Language Teachers’ Cognitive Interests