Integrating Technology on Initial Training Courses: A Survey Amongst CELTA Tutors

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Author(s): Marisa Constantinides (CELT Athens, Greece)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 16
Source title: Explorations of Language Teaching and Learning with Computational Assistance
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Professor Bin Zou (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1855-8.ch015

Keywords: Computer-Assisted Language Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Teacher trainers/educators play a key role in the process of normalisation, as defined by Bax (2003), in the training of foreign language teachers to use technology as a regular part of their practice. This study explores teacher trainer attitudes towards adopting technology, their readiness to use it on teacher training courses, and their current levels of comfort in integrating it on Cambridge CELTA courses, a pre-service course currently followed by approximately 12,000 candidates annually. The results and discussion will stimulate some reflection as to what degree such courses are responsive to the objective of integrating technology in the training of foreign language teachers.

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