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“Visions” of K‐12 Foreign Language Teacher Recruitment in Higher Education
Author(s) -
Long Sheri Spaine
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2000.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - foreign language , vision , pedagogy , resource (disambiguation) , language assessment , language education , english as a foreign language , political science , psychology , sociology , computer science , computer network , anthropology
This article addresses the role of college and university professors in foreign language teacher recruitment (K‐12) and lobbies for increased involvement in recruitment efforts. The discussion includes explanations of why many foreign language professors who are not affiliated with Schools or Colleges of Education frequently do not recommend foreign language teaching careers to their students. Also delineated are the benefits of more participation in recruitment efforts by foreign language professors from traditional, humanities‐based departments of foreign languages and literatures. The article concludes with 22 reasons to be a foreign language teacher — a resource for presenting the positive aspects of the foreign language profession to potential foreign language teacher candidates.