Online LSP Teacher Education in Spanish Universities

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Languages for Specific Purposes, teacher training, European Higher Education Area, online teaching

Abstract

This paper presents the results of the initial phase of the European project "LSP Teacher Education Online Course for Professional Development" (LSP-TEOC.Pro). The strategic partnership consortium consists of ten member institutions; nine are directly involved as teachers of languages for specific purposes (LSP) and the British research organization Arcola Research Llp. The objective of this project is to provide students and teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) with a multilingual online course which will allow them to acquire the competences needed for a successful implementation of teaching languages in a specific context. This course will be taught online (also called distance learning, e-learning or web-based learning, among others), as online teaching has recently become one of the main characteristics of the 21st century educational system. (Tsai & Machado, 2002). This study focuses on the analysis and synthesis of the existing online LSP teacher training programmes in Spanish universities. Eighty-two Spanish universities, both public and private, were reviewed. Interestingly, only 11 online LSP teacher training courses were identified. The results have been compared with those obtained in a previous study carried out by the same working group in the European Project "TRAILs" (Vázquez Amador & López-Zurita, 2021), complementing the existing information and offering an exhaustive overview of training programs for LSP teachers, both face-to-face and online in Spain.

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Author Biographies

Paloma López-Zurita, Universidad de Cádiz

Paloma López-Zurita es Profesora Titular de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación de la Universidad de Cádiz, España. Es doctora en Filología Inglesa y tiene una amplia experiencia en la enseñanza de Inglés para Fines Específicos tanto a estudiantes degrado como de Máster. Sus principales áreas de investigación son la terminología, la lexicología y la interferencia intercultural, particularmente aplicados al discurso específico. Actualmente es directora del Panel de Lenguas con Fines Específicos de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA), participa habitualmente en congresos internacionales y ha publicado numerosos artículos en revistas especializadas

María Vázquez Amador, Universidad de Cádiz

María Vázquez-Amador es profesora Ayudante Doctora en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación de la Universidad de Cádiz, España. Es doctora en Filología Inglesa con una tesis doctoral denominada “Anglicismos en la prensa escrita española antes del S.XX (1750-1900)”. Ha participado en proyectos de mejora e innovación docente relacionados con la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del Inglés para Fines Específicos. Entre sus líneas de investigación están el contacto entre lenguas y la didáctica en Inglés para Fines Específicos, temas sobre los que ha publicado diversos artículos en revistas científicas

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2022-12-12

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López-Zurita, P., & Vázquez Amador, M. (2022). Online LSP Teacher Education in Spanish Universities. Revista De Lenguas Para Fines Específicos, 28(2), 242–259. Retrieved from https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1493

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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022): Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos

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