Researchers: Luis Guerra, Lili Cavalheiro, Ricardo Pereira (RG5)
Project Designation: International Language Teacher Education Research Group (ILTERG), 2016-1-TR01-KA203-035295
Funding Entity: Turkiye Ululal Ajanzi (Turkish National Agency), European Union ERASMUS+
Principal Researcher: Gonca Eksi, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye
Co-responsible: Luis Guerra (CEAUL/University of Evora)
Research Unit: Department of Linguistics and Literatures, University of Evora
Partners: Boğaziçi University, Ankara, Türkiye; University of Evora, Evora, Portugal; Pomeranian University; Slupsk, Poland.
Duration: September 2016 – August 2019
Funding: 220,400€
Overall description: Interaction among researchers is one of the main pillars of social and scientific advancements. It is widely accepted that collaboration leads to greater productivity and impact (Katz & Martin, 1997). It is most widely encountered in sciences, but there is a growing interest in social sciences towards establishment of research groups for gathering research fellows who are interested in the same research area.
The main aim of this project is to establish international research groups which will facilitate collaboration in the field of language teacher education. The specific fields of research groups might include:
- Comparative evaluation of language teacher education programs and policies
- Continuing professional development for language teachers
- Teacher competences and standardization
- Practicum in language teacher education
- The impact of English as a global language/ English as a Lingua Franca on teacher education policy and practices
- Classroom Interaction and language teacher education
- Teacher cognition in language teaching
- CALL and language teacher education
- Other relevant sub-fields of teacher education
The research groups will be established in each partner university and will include at least 3 researchers one of whom being the group leader. The main premise of these groups will be to have researchers with similar interest areas or studying the teacher education phenomena in a different aspect. The groups will have a cosmopolitan structure including at least one participant from other countries than the one in which the group is established.
The outputs of the ILTERG project will be:
- Development and Administration of a Needs Analysis Survey towards Collaborative Research in Language Teacher Education
- Writing Research Articles
- Composing an Edited Book in the Field of Language Teacher Education
- Organizing Workshops for Novice Researchers
- Composing a Guidebook on Establishment of International Research Groups
- Organizing an International Conference on Language Teacher Education
All in all, the ILTERG project will ensure the productivity, quality and impact of research in the area of language teacher education. Therefore, the major impact expected from this project is to conduct and produce high quality studies in the field language teacher education through long-term research companionships and cross-fertilization of ideas among international researchers in the field of language teacher education.