Teaching English - Language Teacher Education

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Teaching English - Language Teacher Education. Over a thousand years ago in AIAzhar, one of the oldest universities in the world, one learned man would sit under a pillar with a surrounding group of disciples eagerly hanging on every word he uttered, doing their best to understand his ideas and follow them. After the session was over, a Socratic dialogue would take place between the learned man and each of his students to clarify some of the points discussed. The 'Aalim', or learned man, was well informed, the disciples or 'Mureedeen' were well motivated, and the topics were usually confined to religious rituals and ethics based on the Koraan and the sayings of the Prophet.
Teaching English - Language Teacher Education. At that time, because the sole ambition of every learner was to be an exact copy of his tutor, this practice was ideal for that type of higher education. Nowadays the explosion of knowledge and the progress in instructional technology have shifted the emphasis away from the 'tutor' and the text as the only sources of information. Mass media have also created a new type of learner who readily challenges the traditional role of the Egyptian teacher. Largely influenced by the heritage of the past, Egyptian Faculties of Education are caught in a bitter conflict between a diehard, obsolete way of teaching, and the demands of a modern educational trend that depends on learner-oriented resource- based learning, self-instructional techniques, problem-solving approaches and individualized instruction.
Rather than encourage the learner to reproduce undigested items of information that may soon become obsolete, modern educational trends aim at helping the student to learn how to learn on his own. While the first generation of TV learners is about to graduate from universities this year, most of the teaching in colleges of education, inkeeping with what was going on over a thousand years ago, still relies too heavily on the text and teacher's notes. An ever widening gap is developing between the expectations of the learners, the needs of a developing nation and the competence of the graduates of colleges of education. Teaching English - Language Teacher Education.

Penulis: Roger Browers

Penerbit: The British Council

Tahun: 1987

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