Service for Teacher Competences : Portfolio Proposal for Developing English-Medium Teaching in Higher Education
Tohtahun, Gulnara (2011)
Tohtahun, Gulnara
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2011
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105107127
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105107127
Tiivistelmä
This study addresses the problems with teaching in English-medium study programs in Finnish UASs. The objective of the study is to come up with a solution for the above problem, a Service Portfolio Proposal for developing teacher competences in English-medium study programs of higher education.
The data for the study comes from three surveys conducted in spring 2010 that were based on the Teacher competences questionnaire that concentrated on the problems with teaching in English-medium study programs in Finnish UASs and the suggestions for improving the situation.
The target groups of the surveys were the students, the teachers and the Heads of pro-grams from English-medium study programs of UASs as well as the organizers of the surveys – the language coordinators from UASs covered by the survey.
The study took a qualitative approach in analyzing the empirical data. CLIL competence areas provided the framework of reference in the study.
The results of the survey were categorized for the purpose of reliability and the resulting categories were further analyzed and discussed by CLIL competence areas.
The results of such analysis revealed that the respondents of the three groups mentioned the same problems and gave similar suggestions for improving the situation. The views of the respondents appeared to be in-line with the CLIL recommendations on CLIL teacher competences.
Most frequently occurring suggestions of the respondents provided the basis for the Service Portfolio proposed in this study. The Service Portfolio proposal is complimented with the Service Process for Developing Teacher Competences proposal. The two are parts of the Service for Developing Teacher Competences proposal: the Service Process uses the resources provided by the Service Portfolio.
The Service for Developing Teacher Competences is targeted at higher education institu-tions with English-medium study programs. The Universities are free to select the re-sources from the proposed Service Portfolio for their internal use.
The study is a modest contribution to an on-going nation-wide project that encompasses all the UASs in Finland.
The data for the study comes from three surveys conducted in spring 2010 that were based on the Teacher competences questionnaire that concentrated on the problems with teaching in English-medium study programs in Finnish UASs and the suggestions for improving the situation.
The target groups of the surveys were the students, the teachers and the Heads of pro-grams from English-medium study programs of UASs as well as the organizers of the surveys – the language coordinators from UASs covered by the survey.
The study took a qualitative approach in analyzing the empirical data. CLIL competence areas provided the framework of reference in the study.
The results of the survey were categorized for the purpose of reliability and the resulting categories were further analyzed and discussed by CLIL competence areas.
The results of such analysis revealed that the respondents of the three groups mentioned the same problems and gave similar suggestions for improving the situation. The views of the respondents appeared to be in-line with the CLIL recommendations on CLIL teacher competences.
Most frequently occurring suggestions of the respondents provided the basis for the Service Portfolio proposed in this study. The Service Portfolio proposal is complimented with the Service Process for Developing Teacher Competences proposal. The two are parts of the Service for Developing Teacher Competences proposal: the Service Process uses the resources provided by the Service Portfolio.
The Service for Developing Teacher Competences is targeted at higher education institu-tions with English-medium study programs. The Universities are free to select the re-sources from the proposed Service Portfolio for their internal use.
The study is a modest contribution to an on-going nation-wide project that encompasses all the UASs in Finland.