Comprendre les représentations des enseignants de langues à travers des récits visuels

• Main Author: Melo Pfeifer, Silvia Maria
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2019-06-01
• Series: Educazione Linguistica Language Education
• Subjects: Social representations. Foreign language teachers. Social representations and teacher education.
• Online Access: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/elle/2019/3/comprendre-les-representations-des-enseignants-de-/

Teachers’ representations are of paramount importance to understand their situated professional action. Following a discussion of the concept of “representation” and its importance in foreign language education, a revision of the use of visual narratives in this disciplinary field will be presented, focusing on: i) (prospective) foreign language teachers’ representations concerning the target language; ii) their representations regarding teaching and learning methods; iii) teachers’ professional development. Afterwards, an empirical study using visual methods in initial teacher education, before and after a school professional internship, will be presented and discussed, illustrating the professional development of prospective teachers of French.