El contexto laboral contemporáneo requiere que los profesionales posean habilidades complejas que se manifiestan en forma de diversas competencias clave. En el campo de la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras, existen varios marcos de referencia (Kelly et al. 2000; Borg 2006; Newby et al. 2007; Instituto Cervantes 2012) que definen una serie de competencias genéricas y específicas importantes para la profesión docente. Es por eso que ya la formación docente inicial debería asentarse en un enfoque basado en competencias (Vizek Vidović 2009). Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre las competencias de los docentes de ELE en Croacia desde tres perspectivas: a) la curricular, b) la estudiantil y c) la profesional, cuyo análisis ha revelado ciertas discrepancias. Aunque el currículo incluye casi todas las competencias reconocidas por los marcos referenciales, se notó una alta presencia implícita de las competencias cuya adquisición durante los estudios no fue reconocida por parte de los estudiantes. Por otro lado, estudiantes y profesionales en gran medida coinciden en cuanto a la valoración de la importancia de las diversas competencias, pero su nivel de adquisición durante los estudios es inferior a su percibida importancia. Eso en parte concuerda con la concepción de la formación inicial como el primer escalón en la formación profesional, pero a su vez abre puertas a propuestas de mejoras de la formación inicial de los docentes de ELE en Croacia.
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Information literacy as a set of abilities needed to recognize, locate, evaluate and effectively use needed information is extremely important in education, especially in English for
The rapid change of information and technology implies language teacher preservice trainees' permanent education on Information literacy in order to answer to the needs of modern education. Information literacy as a set of abilities needed to recognize, locate, evaluate and effectively use needed information is extremely important in all fields of education, especially in language areas since many researches have shown that language teachers often enter the classroom without necessary Information literacy skills. For this reason, this research has been conducted trying to get insight into Croatian language teacher pre-service trainees' habits of using online sources, the frequency of using online sources and their attitudes towards educating their future language students on Information literacy. The results are analysed and compared to a similar research conducted among Croatian students of English for Specific Purposes. Although conducted on a small-scale research, the study showed high self-assessment of Information literacy among the participants but also the awareness of the importance Metodički obzori 12(2017)1 Information literacy of croatian.. of being educated at least basics on Information literacy. The study also showed that almost 1/3 of the participants still don't feel ready to take some responsibility in the process of developing strategies among their future pupils in finding relevant and quality information.
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