Algunas causas de la mala práctica docente en lenguas extranjeras

Abstract

It is as important to highlight the features of good foreign language teachers as it is to point out the evident pitfalls of those who are not in that group. Being a professional teacher -in the sense of making one's living from teaching- is far from automatically being a good teacher: this calls for other traits that may be categorized as 'personal', 'methodological' or 'linguistic'. This paper explores these categories and the way they interact with one another according to previous models, and describes how teachers may enter into either positive or negative cycles that severely affect their professional development.