Teacher training and development in ELT: A professional approach
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https://doi.org/10.25170/ijelt.v2i2.1603Keywords:
professionalism, pre-service education, in-service education, ELTAbstract
English Language Teaching (ELT) has no professional body controlling entry to the profession, and there is a lack of clarity in the literature on the role and content of both pre-service teacher education and in-service teacher development. This paper builds on socioeconomic models of professionalism in an attempt to develop valid criteria for both. Professionalism as a system of rewarding and controlling expert labour is defined and the legitimacy of forming professional bodies is discussed. The criteria are then applied to ELT as a critique of existing pre-service and in-service teacher education, and suggestions are made for the professionalization of ELT.
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Wilensky, H. 1964. The professionalization of everyone? American Journal of Sociology, 70, 137-158.
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