Modern Language Teacher Education in the Knowledge Society

Abstract

 The article deals with the visions of changes in language teacher education. Teacher education
institutions must be future orientated because they are training teachers for the next 10 or 20 years to teach the
language users of the future. As the information revolution is bringing changes in the language use, the jobs
language educators do are becoming more complex and more varied. Present approaches to teacher education
frequently do not reflect these transformations, besides in many countries language teachers have undervalued
professional and social status.
Taking into account the changes in language use, teacher education should concentrate on social and collaboration
skills knowledge of lanmuages and new technologies essassment theory and practice management, communication and presentation skills, multilingual and multicultural competencies.
If we want our teachers to be able to meet the challenges of the 21st century, we have to start already today by
establishing a framework for curriculum design in teacher education.