Double responsibility of foreign language teachers: Primary student-teachers’ perceptions of linguistic and cultural content

• Authors: Gabriel Sanchez-Sanchez , Marek Krawiec , Francisco Javier Ibañez-Lopez
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Scholars all over the world have been arguing for foreign language instruction which combines linguistic and cultural content. Eliminating the cultural side results in a deficient process. This study explored prospective teachers’ perceptions of both constituents, since they will ultimately be responsible for their implementation in the foreign language classroom. To this end, 137 students from three European universities were chosen and asked to fill out an online questionnaire with Likert scale items. Data was collected and interpreted using the free statistics software package R (R Core Team, 2019). The findings confirmed that the relevance of linguistic / cultural issues was unanimously acknowledged (98,5%), speaking was appointed as the most desired target skill (97,1%), interpersonal relations (88,3%) as the most important aspect of socio-cultural knowledge, and lessons with native speakers (94,2%) as the most relevant classroom resource

Keywords

PL

double responsibility; communication skills; (inter-)cultural education; foreign language instruction; student-teacher; teaching and training

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 137-159

Dates

published

2020-06-01

Contributors

author

Gabriel Sanchez-Sanchez

• Universidad de Murcia

author

Marek Krawiec

• Wielkopolska Wyższa Szkoła Społeczno-Ekonomiczna, Środa Wielkopolska

author

Francisco Javier Ibañez-Lopez

• Universidad de Murcia

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2020.47.1.08