Bilingual teacher training: Failure or success? a students’ and teachers’ perspective

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the discussion of the controversial issue concerning bilingual teacher training. The research will be carried out among BA students trained to become both English and Spanish teachers as well as among lecturers involved in training these students. The aim of the research is to find both the students’ and the teachers’ opinion about the effectiveness of bilingual teacher training paying attention to its strengths and weaknesses. The author will consider, among others, such factors as: course curriculum (i.e., the list of subjects devoted to English and Spanish, culture and foreign language methodology training as well as the amount of hours devoted to each subject) and the students’ competence in English and Spanish. The students will be asked to express their opinions on their competence as far as practical English and Spanish are concerned as well as methodology of teaching English and Spanish as a foreign language. The teachers, on the other hand, will be expected to evaluate the students’ language competence as well as their potential competence to teach English and Spanish as foreign languages. The author intends to use two types of research tools: interview with teachers and questionnaire for students.