TEALS published its first issue of E-Teals: an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies

List of Participants for Issue no. 1: Rita Baleiro Ana Cláudia Cohen Coelho Nicolas Hurst Carolyn Leslie Ana Gonçalves Matos

Vai ser lançado no dia 16 de Junho o livro O Professor na Caverna de Platão: As Recentes Políticas para a Formação de Professores em Portugal e o Futuro da Profissão , da autoria do Prof. Doutor Carlos Ceia, inserido no grupo de investigação TEALS. A apresentação da obra será feita pelo Prof. Ramiro Marques e acontecerá no Auditório 2 da FCSH pelas 18 horas.

JUSTIFICATION:

• A new research group working within the area of teacher education (covering primary/basic, secondary and tertiary education in Portugal) could provide "add-on value" to CETAPS in terms of research in the field of social and human sciences.
• Traditionally, this type of research is delimited by its connection to a specific department or faculty, whether based in modern languages or education sciences. We believe that a Centre like CETAPS can develop important activities in the specific area of teacher education since many teachers in both faculties (FCSH and FLP) have been working within the pre-service and in-service teacher programmes offered to graduates of "first cycle" courses.
• The recently acquired status of "Master in Teacher Education" associated with the above mentioned programmes implies there should be a commitment to original research and production of data-driven knowledge. This applies to the teaching staff as well as the student/in-service teachers, the latter more specifically in a non-optional classroom based action research element as part of their assessed work.
• In addition, our foreign language assistants (leitores) have been largely omitted from research activities within their faculties, departments and research units. They are, without doubt, committed teachers and colleagues who want to join CETAPS so as to help enlarge the scope of its activities, in a new domain which is deeply significant in relation to the long term future of post-graduate studies in both Lisbon and Porto.

MAIN AIMS OF THE PROJECT:

• To promote quality research activities in teacher education in Portugal
• To create teams to conduct parallel research strands in Lisbon and Porto, based on topics listed below.
• To engage with student/in-service teachers in academically informed and focussed classroom based action research projects, to the benefit of the student/in-service teachers, the faculty staff and the host schools.
• To organize regular conferences in Lisbon and Porto with specially invited overseas speakers alongside unit members.
• To encourage the production of articles for publication based on student teachers' final reports and in-service teachers Final Project Work (Trabalho de Projecto), according to norms defined within CETAPS
• To publicise the activities and research findings of the unit through regular attendance at local and international conferences
• To explore possible international links with like-minded faculty members throughout Europe, making use of existing staff contacts.
• To support teachers in practice to adapt to the changing needs of their
• profession.
• To create an e-journal.

• Action research in teacher education (particularly that initiated by student/in-service teachers)
• Supervision of student-teachers (role of the supervisor; peer feedback on observed lessons)
• Cooperative development in teacher education as a framework for supporting student/in-service teachers
• Reflective practice in Teacher Education
• Models for Teacher Education at Master's level
• E-learning and Teacher Education
• Teacher assessment and evaluation
• Initial and further teacher development for primary English language teachers
• Developing CLIL in primary English language teaching
• Transition from 1º to 2º ciclo (attitudes, content, evaluation)
• Intercultural education and (intercultural) citizenship education
• E-learning at tertiary level
• Assessment and evaluation - learners and learning
• Development of writing skills
• Teaching translation and developing competencies for translators (including assessment of translator competencies)
• English pronunciation
• Using debating to promote Speaking

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

• International Forum on English Language Teaching IV (Porto, 2009)
• International Forum on English Language Teaching III (Porto, 2008)

• TEFL - 3rd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2010)
• TEFL - 2nd International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2009)
• TEFL - 1st International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language (FCSH, Lisbon, 2008)