Pre-service preschool teachersʼ beliefs about foreign language learning and early foreign language teaching in Slovenia

Dagarin Fojkar, Mateja (author), Skubic, Darija (author)

The implementation of foreign languages in preschool education has prompted the need for qualified teachers. However, most recent studies report a gap between the supply of qualified foreign language teachers of young learners and the demand for such teachers as foreign languages are introduced earlier and earlier. The authors of this paper present some models of initial and in-service training of preschool foreign language teachers in Slovenia. As learners’ beliefs about language learning have been considered an important variable, like many other individual differences in language learning, the main aim of the research was to determine pre-service preschool teachers’ beliefs about early foreign language learning. The research was conducted on a sample of 90 pre-service preschool teachers. The results imply that future preschool teachers are aware of the importance of foreign language learning and their awareness raises with the year of study. The results of the survey indicate that it would be beneficial to include early foreign language teacher training in the education of preschool teachers who are willing to teach foreign languages in kindergartens in Slovenia and elsewhere.

• Language: English
• Keywords: foreign language learning, preschool teachers, preschool teachers’ beliefs, pre-service teacher training
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2017
• Number of pages: Str. 85-104
• Numbering: Vol. 7, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-99537
• UDC: 373.2:81'243(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 1855-9719
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.365
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11885641

Copyright

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• Publication date in RUL: 31.01.2018

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: CEPS journal. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
• Publisher: Pedagoška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani, Pedagoška fakulteta Univerze, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 1855-9719
• COBISS.SI-ID: 252707584

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prepričanja študentov predšolske vzgoje o učenju in zgodnjem poučevanju tujega jezika v Sloveniji

Abstract

Uvajanje učenja tujih jezikov v predšolski vzgoji in izobraževanju je spodbudilo potrebo po usposobljenih učiteljih. A večina študij, opravljenih pred kratkim, poroča o vrzeli med ponudbo usposobljenih učiteljev tujih jezikov mlajših učencev v zgodnjem obdobju in povpraševanjem po tovrstnih učiteljih zaradi vedno bolj zgodnjega uvajanja tujih jezikov v vzgojno-izobraževalni sistem. Avtorici tega prispevka predstavita nekaj modelov začetnega izobraževanja in nadaljnjega usposabljanja učiteljev tujih jezikov v predšolskem obdobju v Sloveniji. Prepričanja bodočih vzgojiteljev o učenju jezikov so bila upoštevana kot pomembna spremenljivka tako kot veliko drugih individualnih razlik v tujejezikovnem učenju, glavni cilj raziskave pa je bil ugotoviti, kakšna so prepričanja bodočih vzgojiteljev o zgodnjem učenju tujih jezikov. V raziskavo je bilo vključenih 90 bodočih vzgojiteljev. Rezultati kažejo, da se bodoči vzgojitelji zavedajo pomembnosti učenja tujih jezikov in da to zavedanje narašča z leti študija. Rezultati raziskave kažejo tudi, da bi bilo koristno vključiti usposabljanje za zgodnje učenje tujih jezikov v študijski program Predšolska vzgoja za tiste vzgojitelje, ki bi želeli učiti tuje jezike v vrtcih v Sloveniji in drugod po svetu.

• Keywords: predšolska vzgoja, predšolski otroci, tuji jeziki, zgodnje učenje, Slovenija, vzgojitelji