THE DYNAMICS OF THE TEACHER’S ROLES IN AN ICT LANGUAGE CLASS
THE DYNAMICS OF THE TEACHER’S ROLES IN AN ICT LANGUAGE CLASS

Summary/Abstract: The paper is meant as a radiograph of the roles a teacher should assume in response to the knowledge society demands from education. The issue that is investigated is whether teachers can contribute to better ensuring the instruction process efficiency by adopting an attitude of permanent professional reflection and open-mindedness, mainly focused on identifying the pedagogic rationale underlying their teaching options. As nowadays one of the teacher’s major choices refers to the manner of using Information and Communications Technology – ICT in class, the research was meant to investigate, based on data from a case study and a teacher questionnaire, the main aspects to be considered by a foreign language teacher using modern technology, viz. adopting new roles dynamically, centering the activity upon the students’ needs and their learning process, as well as maintaining/encouraging an essentially humanistic approach to the class environment - thus preventing the risk to mechanically implement ICT.

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