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Foreign language teacher training at the University of Warsaw with a special focus on the cultural component

  • Autores: Jacek Romaniuk
  • Localización: International Conference Reconceptualizing the Professional Identity of European Teacher / Miguel-Ángel Ballesteros-Moscosio (ed. lit.), Francis Ries (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-84-939704-5-1, págs. 545-550
  • Idioma: español
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    • The paper I would like to present is based on my 7-year teaching experience as a lecturer at the Center for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education of the University of Warsaw and my 5-year experience as the Centre�s director.

      I work at the University College of English Language Teacher Education (a part of the Center) where I teach American literature and culture. Teaching these subjects (which are foreign and at the same time familiar to my Polish students through their immersion in popular culture which is highly grounded in American culture and reality) I have been basing on what Patrick Moran calls �four knowings:� knowing about, knowing why, knowing how, and knowing oneself. Thus, not only am I required to present my students with information on a particular cultural aspect they are learning about, but I also strive at grounding and comparing the knowledge I am passing onto my students with their experiences of their vernacular culture and language. This, in turn, as I see it, helps them not only learn the relevant and required information and facilitate the language learning process but also have the knowledge stored in their long term memory. It may seem a natural way of teaching content and language, however, from my perspective, teacher trainers and language instructors often forget or disregard this valuable aspect of knowing oneself.

      As far as my experience as the director of the Center is concerned, I would like to acquaint the participants with the new teaching program we have implemented in our institution. The Center is the only public university unit running a program in which students learn to teach two subjects: either two foreign languages (English, French or German) or a foreign language and civic education. Not only does this meet the demands of the education market in Poland but also makes our students successful competitors in terms of employment.

      I think that sharing the above mentioned experiences might be a valuable contribution to the conference


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