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Mann, Steve J., Davidson, Andrew, David, Monika, Gakonga, Jo, Gamero, Maricarmen, Harrison, Tily, Mosavian, Penny and Richards, Lynette (2019) Video in language teacher education. London: British Council. (ELT Research Papers).
An open access version can be found in:
Official URL: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/video-l...
Abstract
The project Video in Language Teacher Education
(ViLTE), funded by the British Council ELT Research
Partnership Awards Scheme, was undertaken during
2017 and 2018. Its main aims were:
■ Aim 1 – to map the current use of video and visual
media tools in language teacher education
■ Aim 2 – to build a community of practice among
practitioners involved in teacher education in
order to share good practice.
This report primarily concerns the first of these aims.
The second aim is realised through the following
web resources:
■ ViLTE Project website (useful information,
vignettes, transcripts of interviews, links, research
team profiles)
■ ViLTE Video case studies (videos featuring various
video-based practices).
The ViLTE Video case studies currently have 25 video
contributions with more planned for the future. If you
feel that you or one of your colleagues has a video
contribution to make, we would be very interested in
hearing from you. Please email here to contact us.
The project was conducted primarily through
interviews with teacher educators supported by
a literature review and document analysis. The
literature review and document analysis were used
to gather detailed information about video resources
and practices. Semi-structured interviews were
carried out both face-to-face and through computermediated communication with 45 teacher educators
working in diverse educational settings.
There were two important ways that we established
further interest in and contribution to the project:
■ A webinar held on 8 February 2018 through
Adobe Connect, hosted by Tilly Harrison, featuring
three speakers (Russell Stannard, Julia Huettner
and Thom Kiddle).
■ A video-based resource with a growing number
of video contributions. Andrew Davidson led the
design and management of this resource.
The study uncovered considerable diversity in
video use in language teacher education. The role
that video plays in training is still primarily as input
(to model, explain, prompt discussion), but there is
growing evidence that digital media makes it possible
for video to be used in increasingly active and
reflective ways. The variety of possibilities that are
now available to teacher educators can be explored
on our ViLTE project video resource website where
videos and supporting documents from a variety of
contributors can be accessed.
Item Type: | Report | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Series Name: | ELT Research Papers | ||||
Publisher: | British Council | ||||
Place of Publication: | London | ||||
ISBN: | 9780863559310 | ||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 37 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Copyright Holders: | © British Council 2019/J201 | ||||
Funder: | British Council | ||||
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