Teachers and their role in language learning through the eyes of their students

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra. Teachers and their role in language learning through the eyes of their students. 2022.

Basic information

Original name

Teachers and their role in language learning through the eyes of their students

Authors

TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra

Edition

2022

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Language Centre

Keywords in English

language learning histories; self-reflection; autonomy

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International impact

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Abstract

V originále

Much has been written about the essential role of teachers in a language classroom and how it has been changing over the years. However, this presentation is not going to deal with this role through the lenses of methodological theories; it is going to show how language teachers are viewed by their students themselves. Based on an analysis of a self-compiled corpus of 100 language learning histories written by master’s students of an academic presentations course, the author is going to demonstrate the two-fold role as seen by her students- they describe their (mostly) primary and secondary school teachers either as helpers and motivators on their path to language mastery or as those who have distracted or discouraged them on this journey. Students’ accounts of their language learning histories give an interesting insight into how languages have been taught at Czech schools in the third millennium, which can help us understand what really works and what does not in language learning in students’ retrospect.