Abstract

FANDINO-PARRA, Yamith José; RAMOS-HOLGUIN, Bertha; BERMUDEZ-JIMENEZ, Jenny  and  ARENAS-REYES, Julio César. New Discourses on Native and Foreign Language Training for Teachers in Colombia. educ.educ. [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.1, pp.46-64. ISSN 0123-1294.  https://doi.org/10.5294/edu.2016.19.1.3.

The primary objective of this article is to propose an interdisciplinary and holistic approach to transforming the nature and scope of language-subject teacher education in Colombia, in the era of post-method language teaching, communities of practice, multi-literacies and a multimodal approach. Through a document review, a theoretical approach to teacher training in general is established, before delving into the specifics of educating teachers in their mother tongue and a foreign language. The need to reshape teacher training in languages from the standpoint of professional development for empowerment is proposed, and conceptual frameworks such as post-method teaching, communities of practice, multi-literacies and a multimodal approach are presented as possible applications to transform and innovate language teacher training in Colombia.

Keywords : Teacher training; mother tongue; foreign language; educational innovation.

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