From ‘Profile’ to ‘Portfolio’ and Beyond: the Image of Linguistic Policies and Sustainable Development in Language Teachers’ Education
From ‘Profile’ to ‘Portfolio’ and Beyond: the Image of Linguistic Policies and Sustainable Development in Language Teachers’ Education

Summary/Abstract: Between strategies and specific teaching techniques, the 40 possible training directions included in the European Profile for Language Teachers Education are not rules but needs for a better professional development. The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) is a reflection tool for improving teaching and can help student teachers of languages as well as practicing language teachers to identify the necessary teaching competences, irrespective of the learning context. EPOSTL launches a very challenging set of didactic competences, as an opportunity for student teachers of languages and practicing teachers to reflect on their didactic knowledge and their teaching skills. The triangle formed by the pre-service key competences, the teaching descriptors and the teachers’ dossier has been thought as a permanent exchange of ideas and examples of good practice.In Romania as well as in the world there is an obvious need for a common evaluation framework, regarding the teaching competences for student teachers who intend to become language teachers. EPOSTL as well as the Profile are guides for disseminating examples of good teaching practice in a multilingual and multicultural Europe.

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