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Title: | 4.Educating the Educators of Tomorrow |
Authors: | BERNING, Brian |
Other Authors: | バーニング, ブライアン |
Publisher: | 都留文科大学英文学科 |
Language: | en |
Journal Title: | 英文オンライン=Eibun Online |
刊行日付: | 2019-03 |
Issue: | 1 |
ISSN: | 2434-8082 |
Start Page: | 1 |
End Page: | 6 |
Abstract: | Today’s students and tomorrow’s teachers
are facing challenges that without proper
preparation and support will face struggles
at odds with what is required for teaching
and learning English as a foreign language
(EFL) in the Japanese context. Our jobs as
educators at the University level requires
so much more than just the transmission of
the English language. As educators and
more importantly role models or templates
of EFL educators we must model, practice,
and transmit to our students the best
practices and theoretical basis of how and
why we use certain pedological
tools/methods in the classroom. These
include the ideas of self-motivated
learning, content learning methodology,
student centered language lessons,
assessment methods, and the idea of
proximal learning between not only
student and teacher, but peer groups as
well (Vygotsky, 1978). Included in these
ideas is the idea that language and culture
are inseparable, constantly evolving and
massively varied based on cultural context.
Not to be forgotten is the current mandate
for English education via English in
principle. This has been an almost decade
long call (MEXT, 2014) that all current
and future teachers must be prepared to act
on. The development of methods and tools
our students can use to teach varying levels
of students from junior high school (JHS)
though high school (HS), using English as the primary communicative instrument is
vital. As well as, the ability of young
teachers to transmit these ideas to the
already established teachers can make this
idea of English education through English
possible. To accomplish this educators and
students must work together to produce,
practice, and present (PPP) content in the
classroom that can be applied directly or
could be used to create content and lessons
for use in their future careers. Only by
learning not only the how, but the why
behind these ideas can future educators
apply these ideas to educate the next
generation of EFL learners. |
Type: | Departmental Bulletin Paper |
Textversion: | author |
URI: | http://trail.tsuru.ac.jp/dspace/handle/trair/895 |
Keywords: | English Learning ESL communication |
Appears in Collections: | 英文オンライン=Eibun Online 第1号
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