FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DE PROFESSORES DE LÍNGUA ESTRANGEIRA NO SÉCULO XXI: UMA ANÁLISE DE ELEMENTOS

Abstract

In this essay, we intended to analyze five essential elements to foreign language teachers’ lifelong education. Teaching demands a constant switching of roles, which becomes highlighted in this technological century. In an analogy with natural elements, we presented for each one a correspondent in the process of the lifelong teachers´education. We showed that language, resources, information, scenario and attitude are components of in-service education. To conclude, we proposed a dynamic view for such process, coming towards a premise of this century: to accept the educational system multidimensionality and to refuse the concept of teacher “training”.