Search results for "language teachers"
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Pre-service foreign language teachers' expectations of their studies and teacher profession
2017
Uusia kielenopettajia tutkittaessa on havaittu, että opettajan alkutaival on usein haastavaa, ja monet toimivat näissä tilanteissa tavoilla, jotka eivät ole edullisia opettajien hyvinvoinnille ja ammattitaidolle. Ratkaisuksi ehdotetaan yleensä kielenopettajakoulutuksen kehittämistä. Kielenopettajaksi opiskelevien toimijuutta ja käsityksiä on kuitenkin tutkittu melko vähän. Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, mitä kielenopettajaopiskelijat odottavat yliopisto-opinnoiltansa ja millaisia käsityksiä heillä on opettajan professiosta. Näitä käsityksiä vertailtiin kieltenopettajankoulutuksen tavoitteisiin ja periaatteisiin, jotka ovat Suomessa tutkimusperusteisia. Tutkimuksen aineisto k…
Raising the Profile of Sign Language Teachers in Finland
2016
Sign language teaching in Finland has a long history. In contrast, sign language teacher training programs and research into the sign languages of Finland both know a short history. Due to this contrast, the field of sign language teaching nowadays can be seen as the ‘Wild West’. Till today, teachers from different backgrounds do teach sign language. We do not have a clear picture of what knowledge or competencies are expected from these teachers. In this article we would like to share our opinions about what the profile of a sign language teacher could look like in order to raise and advance the discussion and improve the quality of sign language teaching in Finland. nonPeerReviewed
The professional identity of teachers of English
2011
Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli selvittää englannin kielen opettajien identiteettiä erilaisten roolien valossa. Koska kielenopettajien identiteettiä on tutkittu hyvin vähän, tutkimuksen tarkoitus oli määritellä kielenopettajuuteen kuuluvia rooleja tarkemmin ja lisäksi tukea aikaisempia tuloksia aiheesta. Tutkimuksessa tutkittiin kielenopettajuutta opettajien näkökulmasta sekä sitä, miten työvuodet vaikuttivat opettajuuden muuttumiseen. Tutkimuksen viitekehyksenä käytettiin teorioita identiteetistä, rooleista ja ammattiidentiteetistä sekä aikaisempien tutkimuksien tuloksia aiheesta. Aikaisempiin tutkimustuloksiin perustuen voitiin keskittyä kolmen roolin, kasvattajan, kielenopettajan sekä ku…
Pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of sustainability and its implementation in language teaching
2023
In both the school environment and teacher education, sustainable development is usually linked to the natural and social sciences and is rarely incorporated into language education or encouraged as part of language teacher education. As more research is needed on the practical implementation of sustainable development in language teaching and language teacher education, this study elucidates Finnish pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of sustainability dimensions (i.e. ecological, economic, social, and cultural) and their role in language teaching. We used a questionnaire comprising open-ended and Likert-scale questions to examine pre-service language teachers’ perceptions of and a…
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education: Proceedings of Scientific Papers, 2020
2020
Understanding Language Teacher Identities : Conceptualizations, practices and change
2019
This chapter presents some new approaches and questions in language teacher identity research that could facilitate a better understanding of the work of language teachers, and as a consequence help teacher educators to support them in that work. Language teacher research has shown that periods of change play an important role in identity development. In the field of general teacher research, several studies have addressed the significance of transition phases and changes in curriculum for teacher identities and beliefs. However, there has been some research on the significance of teacher education and transition to full-time teaching for language teacher identity development. A more partic…
Foreign Language learning and teaching Enjoyment: Teachers’ Perspectives
2019
Aim. The primary objective of the present study was to investigate the level of Foreign Language learning Enjoyment and Foreign Language teaching Enjoyment experienced by foreign language teachers in Poland. The secondary aim of the study was to investigate the sources of FLE from the perspective of FL teachers.
 Methods. The informants of the study were Polish educators teaching foreign languages at different educational levels (from primary to tertiary education). To compute the obtained quantitative data, the statistical program STATISTICA was used. Standard descriptive and inferential statistics were used to report means, median and standard deviation for sociodemographic and base…