HL2C-SLLAT Seminar: Hilal Şahin (University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd)

Title: Pre-service EFL teachers’ professional identity development in a course on multilingualism

Presenter(s): Hilal Şahin (University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd)

Date: Wednesday 17 May 2023, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

How to join: The seminars are free to attend. Simply sign up to the HL2C Mailing List or to the SLLAT mailing list to receive the link to join us via Microsoft Teams link. You do not need a Teams account to access the talk.

About: This is a joint event, co-organized by the Heritage Language 2 Consortium (HL2C) and the Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLAT) Research Group.

Abstract:

According to the current state of research in the field of foreign language education, the teaching of English needs to be reoriented as multilingualism-sensitive English teaching (Jakisch, 2019; Melo-Pfeifer, 2018). The goal of such instruction no longer consists of only teaching English but also includes the promotion of plurilingual and pluricultural competence (Coste et al., 2009; Hallet & Königs, 2010). Teachers are thus required to reflect on their language teacher identity: They should (also) see themselves as language teachers instead of English-only teachers and, as such, perceive and acknowledge their students both as learners of English and as speakers with different linguistic and cultural repertoires and identities (Hu, 2018; Norton, 2018). Implementing such identity-oriented English language teaching requires identity-oriented foreign language teacher education, which in turn requires an understanding of pre-service English teachers’ subject-specific identity conceptions and formation processes (Hong et al., 2018; Izadinia, 2013). This presentation introduces a qualitative PhD project that investigates the imagined professional identity development of future English teachers in the context of a seminar on multilingualism-sensitive English teaching at a university in Germany.

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