ELT teacher´s knowledge base
Professor Insuasty
posted the following:
DIRECTIONS: Based on the reading of the selected papers
about “ELT teacher´s knowledge base” (Cross, 2018; Freeman, 2018), post a
reflective and critical comment in your personal blog about the ways ELT
knowledge-base has been reconceptualized over the last decades, and the
implications of these changing views for language teacher education and
language teacher development programs in our country.
Posted by Edgar
Insuasty at 6:48 PM 1 comment
My reflection:
Since the 1998 Johnson
and Freeman’s proposal many changes have occurred in the field of language
teaching. One of the most remarkable ones is the shift from TESOL to ELT.
Accordingly, as the world and opportunities change, there is an evident need to
reconceptualize the knowledge based of English teachers. Freeman (2018) argues
that we cannot continue having the same conceptualizations of teachers’ knowledge
based, as this situation is leading to the poor performance of English
teachers. As he explains we need to include into our knowledge based the new
conceptualizations that have emerged from these last decades. For example, he
states that English now is not a geographical language, and for that reason, we
should not continue talking about native-like English. In this sense, I think
this new updated proposal by Freeman is making us aware that although the political
and power forces are probably not concern about these changes, we as teachers,
as the ones who teach in the classroom, need to start reconceptualizing our
knowledge base. This means that we need to be aware of the different
circumstances and opportunities that are happening in the world, and be updated
to better fulfill the requirements of ELT.
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