The state of in undergraduate and graduate English language teacher training programmes across Slovakia Dagmar Blight University
Contents Language teacher training research Faculties providing EL teacher training programmes in SK Single major EL teacher training programmes Double major EL teacher training programmes Single major Double major Conclusion Recommendations Bibliography
The current state of language teacher training research The Training of Teachers of a Foreign Language: Developments in Europe (2002) European Profile for Language Teacher Education A Frame of Reference (Kelly et al, 2004) Pregraduální vzdélávaní učitelů anglického jazyka (Hanušová, 2005) Didaktika cizích jazyků v přípravném vzělávání učietelů: výsledky dotazníkového šetření (Píšová, 2012) Transformácia vysokoškolského vzdelávania učiteľov v kontexte reformy regionálneho školstva (2009 2012) Vysokoškolské vzdelávanie učiteľov (Kosová, 2012)
Faculties providing EL teacher training programmes in SK BA Single major BA Double major MA Single Major MA Double major FF UK FF UKF F FF UMB Banská Bystrica FF ŽU Žilina FF KU Ružomberok FF UPJŠ Košice - - - - - - - - - - - -
Undergraduate single major EL teacher training programmes Number of Credits for compulsory optional Hours of F 4/3 16/9 12/6 7/1 27/3 15/2 2/1 12/2 4/2 6/2 26/6 17/4
Graduate single major EL teacher training programmes Number of Credits for compulsory optional Hours of F 2/3 6/6 6/6 1/2 4/6 4/4 3/2 18/4 15/4 3/5 12/15 6/10
Undergraduate double major EL teacher training programmes Number of Credits for Hours of FF UK FF UKF F FF UMB Banská Bystrica FF ŽU Žilina FF KU Ružomberok FF UPJŠ Košice 4/6 18/18 15/12 3/3 12/9 9/6 6/1 22/3 15/2 5/6 16/20 15/14 2/1 6/2 4/4 3/2 16/10 8/4 4/0 8/0 8/0 4/5 11/11 8/7 4/2 13/6 10/4 5/7 18/21 14/14
Graduate double major EL teacher training programmes Number of Credits for Hours of FF UK FF UKF F FF UMB Banská Bystrica FF ŽU Žilina FF KU Ružomberok FF UPJŠ Košice 1/5 3/15 2/10 2/3 6/7 4/6 1/1 4/3 4/2 2/3 8/12 7/6 3/2 18/4 9/4 0/3 0/12 0/6 2/0 8/0 4/0 3/3 6/6 6/3 2/5 6/15 4/10 2/2 4/6 4/4
Undergraduate single major Compulsory courses - Introduction to the study of Anglophone literature - English literature I - Children s Anglophone literature - American literature I Compulsory-optional courses - Old English literature - 19 th century English literature - Anglo-American short prose F - Introduction to the study of literature - Interpretation of literary text - English literature 1 - English literature 2 - American literature 1 - American literature 2 - Modern interpretation strategies - Theory and history of Anglophone literatures - Selected chapters from Anglophone literatures - Theory of literature - British literature 1 - British literature 2 - British literature 3 - American literature 1 - American literature 2 - Anglo-American short story - Interpretation of literary texts - Interpretation of literary text - Literature of American ethnic minorities
Graduate single major Compulsory courses - English literature II - American literature II Compulsory-optional courses - Working with literary text - Contemporary Anglophone literature - Minority literature written in English - Contemporary English and American literature - Children s and adolescent literature - Media in literary communication F - British literature - American literature - Children s literature in English language - Multiculturalism and ethnic writers in American literature - Literature written in English - Children s and adolescent literature 1 - Children s and adolescent literature 2 - Contemporary British and American literature - Contemporary literature and pop culture - Fantasy fiction in literature - Australian literature - Spoken literature and film - Stories in English
Undergraduate double major FF UK FF UKF F Compulsory courses - Introduction to the study of literature - British literature 1 - British literature 2 - American literature to the end of the 19 th century - Introduction to the study of Anglophone literature - English literature I - American literature I - Introduction to the study of literature - Interpretation of literary text - English literature 1 - English literature 2 - American literature 1 - American literature 2 - Introduction to the study of literature - Survey of British literature 1 - Survey of American literature 1 - Survey British literature 2 - Survey of American literature 2 - Theory and history of Anglophone literatures - Selected chapters from Anglophone literatures Compulsory-optional courses - Children s and adolescent literature - Canadian 20 th century short story - English 18 th century novel - Introduction to Canadian literature - English regional novel - British 20 th and 21 st century novel - Old English literature - 19 th century English literature - Anglo-American short prose - Anglo-American short story - Analysis and interpretation of literary text - Children s literature - Literature and film - Modern American drama - Modern British drama - Forms of literary modernism - Interpretation of literary texts
Undergraduate double major Compulsory courses Compulsory-optional courses FF UMB Banská Bystrica FF ŽU Žilina FF KU Ružomberok FF UPJŠ Košice - Introduction to the study of language and literature - 17 th 19 th century American literature - 16 th 20 th century English literature - British and American studies and literature 1 - British and American studies and literature 2 - British and American studies and literature 3 - British and American studies and literature 4 - Introduction to the study of literature - History of British literature 1 - History of British literature 2 - History of British literature 3 - Introduction to literature - British literature 1 - British literature 2 - American literature - Introduction to literary science - History of British literature 1 - History of British literature 2 - History of American literature 1 - History of American literature 2-20 th 21 st century American literature - 20 th 21 st century British literature - Critical studies 1 - Critical studies 2 - Critical studies 3 - Critical studies 4 - Critical studies 5-20 th century literatures - Interpretation of literary text - Literature of American ethnic minorities - British literature selected chapters - Different books different worlds - Modern feminity - Gender mainstreaming - Modern masculanity - Fan fiction - American literature selected chapters 0
Graduate double major FF UK FF UKF F Compulsory courses Compulsory-optional courses - American 20 th and 21 st century literature - Canadian Black literatures and cultures - Experiment in the novel - Contemporary literature and culture of the native inhabitants of North America - Film adaptations of literary work - American theatre and society - English literature II - American literature II - Working with literary text - Contemporary Anglophone literature - Minority literature written in English - Contemporary English and American literature - Children s and adolescent literature - Anglophone literature - Short story of Anglophone countries - British literature - American literature - Children s literature in English language FF UMB Banská Bystrica 0 FF ŽU Žilina FF KU Ružomberok FF UPJŠ Košice - Literature of ethnic minorities - Postcolonial literature - World literature - Multiculturalism and ethnic writers in American literature - Literature written in English - Selected chapters from American literature and culture - Selected chapters from English literature and culture - Old English literature - Masterpieces of Anglophone literature 1 - Masterpieces of Anglophone literature 2 0 - Anglophone drama - Critical studies 6 - Anglophone prose - Critical studies 7 - Anglophone poetry - Critical studies 8 - Children s and adolescent literature 1 - Contemporary British and American literature - American ethnic literatures - Modern literary streams - Contemporary literature and pop culture - Fantasy fiction in literature - Australian literature and film - Spoken literature - Stories in English - Literary seminar - Anglophone literatures selected chapters
Conclusion 4 single major EL teacher training programmes 10 double major EL teacher training programmes disparity in: range, credits & duration of
Conclusion 5 years, single major: - : 9 compulsory, 38 credits, 23 hours - F : 5 compulsory, 30 credits, 19 hours per week 5 years, double major: - : 7 compulsory, 26 credits, 19 hours - FF UMB Banská Bystrica: 3 compulsory,16 credits, 8 hours a week
Recommendations Further research needed: - the status of the core disciplines: linguistics, cultural studies, methodology & language in use - quantitative survey of the practical needs of inservice teachers innovative frame of reference overlap & autonomy
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