in: Innovative Scientific Approaches in Education, Science ans Art of the 21th Century., Nevide Akpınar Dellal,Witold Stankowski,Orçin Karadağ, Editor, GlobeEdit, Chisinau, pp.187-203, 2024
Foreign Language Teacher Training and European
Initiatives to Develop Teaching Competence. If teachers and their training are
considered important for good foreign language teaching, then foreign language
didactics should delve into the following questions in more detail: "How can qualified
language teachers be trained, further trained, and developed?", "What teaching
competencies are expected for successful foreign language teaching?", and "How can
candidate language teachers acquire these teaching competencies?"
The aim of the presentation is to discuss the current topic of foreign language teacher
education and provide some food for thought. First, the principles for modern foreign
language teaching will be briefly outlined. Following this, on one hand, teacher
competencies arising from the current practical field will be presented, and on the
other hand, educational content for a career-oriented and scientifically based
university foreign language teacher training. The following points will be briefly
touched upon:
- The communicative turn in foreign language teaching and the political turn in
European foreign language didactics,
- Discussions and problems in the context of foreign language didactics,
- Reforms, restructuring, and recommendations regarding foreign language teacher
education,
- Professional orientation, competence orientation, quality orientation, orientation
towards educational standards, and teacher professionalization in the field of foreign
language teacher training.