Survey of LCTL Teachers
Bill Johnston (Indiana University) and Louis Janus (University of Minnesota / CARLA) sent out a survey to LCTL teachers listed on the LCTL project's databases. The survey aimed to find out about LCTL teachers' backgrounds, the programs they teach in, and the needs for future development to assist them.
The Questionnare and a summary of the results are available below. For more details about this survey or about the LCTL project, please contact Louis Janus, LCTL project Network Coordinator.
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Questionnaire: Professional Development Needs of LCTL TeachersName of institution: See
summary of results A. Your teaching situation1. What language do you teach? See summary of results Note: If you teach more than one language, please provide information for all the languages you teach. 2. How many years of this language does your institution offer? See summary of results Which levels (e.g., 1st year, 2nd year) are you usually responsible for? 3. Please provide the following information about enrollments at your institution in a typical year. Indicate if this is exact information or an approximation: results not available
4. What kind of students do you have? undergraduates? graduate students? heritage students? a mixture? See summary of results Please say a few words about this. 5. Which course book or books do you use? Please give the author, title, and year of publication. (Please see the material information at the Language Materials Project, UCLA.)
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| yes |
no |
| 82 |
135 |
C. Your work situation
9. Are you a tenured or tenure-line faculty member of the institution where you teach?
| yes |
no |
| 165 |
65 |
10. If not:
What kind of contract do you have?
Permanent
Annual
Semester
17
31
21
What is your official title? See summary of results
What percentage is your position? (e.g. full time = 100%, half time = 50%)
Percent time reported
Number of respondents (out of 234 total)
100%
66
80%
1
75%
1
66%
2
60%
1
50%
11
25%
3
11. Many teachers have other duties aside from teaching language (e.g. research, teaching literature). Approximately what percentage of the work that you do is devoted specifically to language teaching and related issues?
| percent reported |
number of respondents (out of 234 total) |
| 10% |
4 |
| 15% |
3 |
| 17% |
1 |
| 20% |
7 |
| 25% |
19 |
| 20 - 40% |
1 |
| 66% |
2 |
| 100% |
25 |
D. Professional development needs
12. We’d like you to read over the list of things that we consider to fall into the category of professional development for language teachers. If there are areas of professional development you feel we have missed, please add these in the place provided. Then, please check the five that you consider the most important for you at the present time in your situation.
A new journal devoted to practice and research in LCTL teaching 54 checked |
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Language enhancement work (working on your own proficiency in the language you teach) 65 checked |
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Opportunities for action research (research on your own classroom that you yourself conduct) 53 checked |
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A conference (e.g. annual) for teachers of LCTLs 60 checked |
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An e-mail list-serve or discussion group for teachers of my language 85 checked |
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Workshops or course work on:
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Other (please fill in): See summary of results |
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E. Anything else?
We’re well aware that completing a questionnaire like this can be somewhat frustrating if your situation doesn’t seem to correspond to the categories given or the questions asked. For this reason, in this section we offer a place for you to make additional comments of your own relating to any of the areas covered above. Please feel free to tell us anything you think would be relevant to your own professional development or that of other LCTL teachers. See summary of results
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