Tutoring means personalized cognitive, metacognitive and affective support of the individual to better guide him/her on the path of learning or teaching. It seems to be experiencing a revival of interest in this difficultperiod of the pandemic where education is increasingly conflicting between face-to-face and distance learning.Tutoring is considered to be one of the most powerful devices for helping students succeed, but we propose to show its benefits also for teacher-researchers in the pedagogical aspect of their work. Our objective will be to synthesize the French and Anglo-Saxon experience that have long explored the positive impact of tutoring in the university context as well as to examine the conditions for its implementation in university courses in Poland.Our experience as a tutor of university teachers - although not yet very rich - will allow us to analyze some concrete cases.
Self-efficacy is a well-known and researched concept originating from the social-cognitive theory of Albert Bandura (1977, 1997). However, it still seems to be able to promote interesting reflections that are important for language education in higher education, both in teacher and learner activities. According to a number of studies learners acquire important skills and attitudes that are linked to a high degree of self-efficacy: they are highly motivated to learn, set ambitious goals for themselves, and are more persistent and committed to learning than those with a low degree of self-efficacy. The text analyses the results of a quantitative-qualitative study conducted among students participating in foreign language classes at the University of Warsaw. The collected data is analysed with the aim of answering the following research questions: What is the level of self-efficacy in written expression in a foreign language at B2-C2 levels? How do the students perceive the teacher-lecturer’s actions to strengthen their sense of self-efficacy? Do they see strengthening their involvement in written expression as a key element of self-efficacy? In addition, we are also interested in their opinion towards the possibilities of Chat GPT in this regard. The results are used to propose some teaching activities that will enhance students’ self-efficacy in written expression at B2-C2 levels as an important motivational factor which may result in a sense of agency.
The aim of this article is to analyse the attitude towards the linguistic norm of the first-year students of Romance Philology in Warsaw through the auto-narration. By this tool, belonging to the qualitative methodology, the learner performs a retrospective introspection and thus ‘evaluates’ the learning, in our context – his learning of grammar. The stories of students-future philologists will be analysed according to the following aspects: the importance given to the linguistic norm (understood here as the need for grammatical correction), the perception of its ‘utility’ in relation to other competences and language subsystems, the relationship between awareness of the norm and the effectiveness / quality of communication in a foreign language.
The aim of the text is to discuss the possibilities of developing professional self-awareness at the stage of initial education of foreign language teachers. The first part of the article presents theoretical considerations on teachers’ professional self-consciousness, distinguishing three areas of it: professional competence as goals to be achieved, self-evaluation and self-regulation, and teachers’ cognitive, emotional and communicative functioning in professional situations. The second part of the text contains an analysis of selected practical tools that serve to develop teachers’ professional self-awareness, such as The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages, and the European Profiling Grid, tools inspired by E. Berne’s concept of Transactional Analysis, and the author’s reflection grids. The conclusions of the analysis indicate the possibility of the coherent use of available tools and creation of additional tools within the context of education, so that the process of developing teachers’ self-awareness is multifaceted and leads to a sense of professionalism.
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