HERE IS MY PRESENTATION OF PAPER 12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

1. Welcome
Everyone

2. Jayati Rudreshkumar Thakar
Roll. No. 30
Batch 2015-2017
M.A. Semester: 3
Paper No. 12
English Language Teaching (ELT)
Email Id: jjayti.thakar94@gmail.com

3. UNIT: 4 ROLE OF A TEACHER IN
‘SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER
EDUCATION’ (SLTE)

4. SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
 Second Language (L2) teacher education describes the
field of professional activity through which individual learn
to teach L2.
 In terms commonly used in the field, these formal
activities are generally referred to as teacher training.
 Like B.Ed and PTC courses
 The term ‘teacher education’ refers to the sum of
experiences and activities through which individuals learn
to be Language teachers. They are referred as a
‘Teacher Learners’.

5.  Historically, the education of teachers has involved
theoretical readings, university-based lectures, and/or
professional development workshops which often take
place outside the walls of the classroom.
 This design of teacher education has its roots in the
process-product paradigm that anchored research and
knowledge production in education beginning in the 1950’s.

6. THE ROLE OF A LANGUAGE TEACHER
 The role of Language Teachers is undeniably crucial in
bringing success to language teaching environments.
 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
(ACTFL) stressed the importance of this role in its position
statement related with the Role of Technology in Language
Learning as “While technology can play an important role in
supporting and enhancing language learning, the effectiveness
of any technological tool depends on the knowledge and
expertise of the qualified language teacher who manages and
facilitates the language learning environment.”
 To put it another way, “…the key to successful use of
technology in language teaching lies not in hardware or
software but in “human ware” – our human capacity as
teachers to plan, design and implement effective educational
activity.”

7.  The importance of teacher educators’ role in shaping the way
students teachers teach in their own teaching environments is
clear. Generally, student teachers complain about the gap
between the theory and practice, especially when they
become real teachers after their graduation.
 Teacher educators’ role in here is seeking ways to bride the
gap between theory and practice. Unless they implement what
they are recommending to the student teacher, they contribute
to the quality of future teachers less.
 Lortie’s (1975) concept of the ‘apprenticeship of observation’
which describes how teachers’ socialization as students
throughout their school careers has a major influence on their
teaching.
 Participation links the teacher and students in the activity of
teaching and learning.

8. CONCLUSION
 When viewed from a socially-situated perspective,
we see becoming a language teacher as a
complex, socially constructed, developmental
process in which formal professional education
plays only one small part.
 Teachers come to teacher education programs with
prior knowledge and experiences that shapes what
they learn.

9. Thank You for Paying
Your Attention

10. Submitted to:
Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department of
English,
Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar,
Gujarat,
India.