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Applied Linguistics

Video in Language Teacher Education

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  • Access the ViLTE research project website here to view teacher education videos on the use of video in language teaching.
  • Access ViLTE publications and video related resources here.
  • The research project report can be accessed here (published March 2109).
ViLTE site launched at IATEFL on 12th April 2018

A series of videos featuring different ways that video is being used in language teacher education is now available from the ViLTE website.

Steve Mann gave a talk about the project at IATEFL 2018 and there is a blog about the talk at EIM-UB Teacher Development written by Jessica Mackay.

ViLTE webinar (recording available here) ViLTE Webinar

This is a recording of the joint University of Warwick and IATEFL Research SIG webinar held on 8th February 2018.

The Video in English language teacher education webinar and panel discussion featured Russell Stannard, Julia Huettner and Thom Kiddle.

Overview of the ViLTE project

This project maps the use of video in language teacher education and showcases examples of good practice on a publicly available website. The project features a range of teacher training contexts (adults only), from initial short pre-service teaching courses to longer teacher education programmes (e.g. MA level). Specifically, it reviews and details digital video use in the field of language teacher education, while also reviewing use in other fields of education (e.g. maths teaching, health care). The project also aims to build a community of practice (through collection of case studies and vignettes) to share innovative and effective video and visual media use in language teacher education.

The ‘benefit’ will be enhancing language teacher trainers’ choices and understanding of the use of video and video technologies in language teacher training. During the last few decades, there has been an increase in both use and understanding of the role digital video can play in teacher training and development. In short, digital video allows more possibilities in language teacher education environments for context-sensitive awareness raising.

The research project has collected and evaluated a range of practices where video, screen capture and audio-visual tools and frameworks are used in innovative ways in teacher training and development. The project has three outputs: there is a research report of teacher training and development practices using video, screen capture and audio-visual tools; there are also two websites: one where examples of video practices with commentaries and pdf files have been uploaded and made available to interested parties, and another which provides related publications and video resources. A video conference (via Adobe Connect) was also held for participants and aimed to disseminate findings and good practice to a wider audience of teacher educators.

Research Team Members

Steve Mann (Project Leader) (University of Warwick)

Andrew Davidson (University of Warwick); Tilly Harrison (University of Warwick); Jo Gakonga (University of Warwick); Penny Mosavian (University of Warwick); Lynnette Richards (University of Warwick); Maricarmen Gamero (Univerity of Warwick): Monika Davis (Brasshouse Languages).