25th Anniversary of the BA in ELT at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes The Evolution of ELT: Sharing Our Experiences in the Field

1. Life is 10% what happens to you and
90% how you react to it.
- Charles R. Swindoll
The Evolution of ELT…

2. Seldom do teachers become
lifelong learners by accident.
by Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD
The Evolution of ELT: Sharing Our Experiences in the Field
25th Anniversary of the B.A. in E.L.T.
September 10-11, 2018
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

3. Personal Learning Network

4. Personal Learning Network (PLN)

5. Personal Learning Network
Social
relationships
Materials:
technologies,
objects, social
media
environments,
etc.
Ideas: beliefs,
perspectives,
knowledge,
understandings, etc.
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language
language
language

6. Maxims of a Personal Learning Network
1. A personal learning network (PLN) is a collection of ideational,
material, and human actors that are a cause and/or consequence
of one’s knowledge base, skill sets, and overall disposition.
2. An actor is any node within one’s PLN that has the potential to
change and/or cause another actor to change.
3. A PLN never remains constant: it or parts of it are either growing
or withering… and it never starts from nothing.
4. Understanding (metacognitively) one’s PLN can occur at one point
in time and over time.
5. What usually is meant as “personalized learning” is simply
understanding one’s PLN… (professional) learning is
understanding one’s PLN!

8. How does a PLN contribute to an
(English) language teacher’s
professional development learning?

9. English Language Teacher Competence
(Cots & Arnó, 2005)
TeachingLinguistics
Language

10. Teacher competence is “a complex combination of knowledge, skills, understanding, values, attitudes
and desire which lead to effective, embodied human action in the world, in a particular domain” (Crick,
2008 as cited in European Commission…, 2013, p. 9).
TeachLing.
Lang.
Language
proficiency
(procedural)
Applied
Linguistics
(declarative)
Teaching
theory
(declarative)
Teaching
practice
(procedural)
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?

11. PLN feeds into one’s professional competence
TeachLing.
Lang.
Language
proficiency
(procedural)
Applied
linguistics
(declarative)
Teaching
theory
(declarative)
Teaching
practice
(procedural)
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
PLN PLN

12. 20XX
Recent graduate
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Inservice, life-long learner
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Incoming learner (university)
Develops personal and professional
eportfolio!
20XX
Developing learner
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13. E-porfolio
Language
proficiency
(procedural)
Applied
linguistics
(declarative)
Teaching
theory
(declarative)
Teaching
practice
(procedural)
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?

14. E-porfolio Artifacts
Language
proficiency
(procedural)
Applied
linguistics
(declarative)
Teaching
theory
(declarative)
Teaching
practice
(procedural)
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?
What kind of
evidence
needed?

15. eportfolios
● Verónica: https://veroarmendariz.wixsite.com/academicportfolio
● Estefani: https://yaarecalvilloska.wixsite.com/myportfolio
● Jonathan: https://jonathangaresp.wixsite.com/jonagarciaspin
● Mariana: https://marianagz22.wixsite.com/marianagomez
● Pepe: https://pepeyrodriguez.wixsite.com/jghr
● Daniela: https://barrettlarsson.wixsite.com/academicwriting
● Nereida: https://nereidazazu.wixsite.com/aboutme
● Andrea: https://andreea0608.wixsite.com/andreeargaez
● Diana: https://poterete.wixsite.com/mysite-dpq
Teachers
● Piry: http://hommers2000.wixsite.com/piryha
● Benjamin: http://www.benjaminlstewart.org/
● Luis: http://ftorresb.wixsite.com/mysite
● José Mora: http://x3620a-labdc.uaa.mx:8080/web/drmora/siop-e-portfolio
● Manuel Lopez: http://x3620a-labdc.uaa.mx:8080/web/drmora/siop-e-portfolio
● Alex: https://alexescobar.weebly.com/

16. References
Cots, J. & Arnó, E. (2005). Integrating language teachers’ discipline knowledge in a
language course. In N. Bartels (Ed.), Applied linguistics and language teacher education
(pp. 59-78). New York, NY: Springer.
European Commission: Education and training. (2013). Supporting teacher competence
development for better learning outcomes. Retrieved from
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/repository/education/policy/school/doc/teache
rcomp_en.pdf
Stewart, B. (2017). The making of a personal, professional eportfolio. Retrieved from
https://www.slideshare.net/bnleez/the-making-of-a-personal-professional-eportfolio

17. Attribution
● Google Trends:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%22personalized
%20learning%22,%22personal%20learning%20network%22
● The making of a personal, professional

18. Thank you!
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