Professionalism in Foreign Language Teaching: An Everlasting Challenge

 

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون: Chaves Carballo, Olga, Rodríguez Chaves, José David
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2018
الوصف:This qualitative, exploratory study is aimed at inquiring the issue of professionalism of university English language professors. Previous research indicates that professionalism in English Language Teaching (ELT) has been a concern for the academia; nonetheless, new demands in the ELT career require teachers to constantly upgrade their performance in order to comply with higher education standards. Hence, traits, pedagogical practices, professional development, and challenges of these professionals are shown in this paper. Through a questionnaire, resultsrevealed that participants felt satisfied with most of the newest teaching competencies. This study also identifies flaws in some teaching fields,which could be improved with professional development updates.
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/34844
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/34844
كلمة مفتاحية:English Language Teaching (ELT)
higher education
teaching competencies
pedagogical practices
professional development