"What’s happening?” – Fostering teaching students’ professional vision

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Regardless of political discussions around the subject, the benefits of starting foreign language education early have long been evident to the research community. One of the foundations of primary school English education is its dependence on well-qualified teachers. In addition to the development of language proficiency and pedagogical competence, the fostering of teachers’ professional vision with regards to subject-specific elements has been discussed in recent academic discourse as a core challenge of modern foreign language teacher education. The presented project is part of the interdisciplinaryQualitaẗ soffensive Lehrerbildungat the WWU Mun̈ ster, and thus concerned with developing video-based teaching concepts that offer relevant learning opportunities to teaching students. The focus within this specific project was placed on fostering younger learners’ speaking competences. In a video-based course design, students are encouraged to recognise and evaluate signs of both speaking-conducive teacher behaviour and learning environments. The course is framed by a pre-/ postevaluation, to assess the change in students’ professional vision. The course was, from the ground up, designed to be taught digitally and remotely. It primarily relies on the use of Miro as a learning platform, as well as a specifically designed annotation tool for working with videos. In this way, students discuss the topicsInput, Communicative Learning Environment, Speaking Opportunities, Scaffolding and Feedback, in a constant exchange between theoretical discussion and guided reflection.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Matz, Frauke	Professur für Englische Fachdidaktik (N. N.)
Ritter, Marius	Professorship for English teaching methodology (Prof. Matz)