English teachers’ profiles and technology-related professional development (original) (raw)

This chapter discusses the possible contributions of virtual learning environments (VLEs) to the English teachers’ professional development and teachers’ profiles. It explores how English teachers that favor the use of new information and communication technologies (ICT) and VLEs have developed skills to design, monitor and assess teaching-learning activities, promoting an area of professional development focused on the self-transformation and the creation of new learning opportunities (Lee, M.-H., & Tsai, C.-C., 2010, Coppola, N., Hiltz, S., & Rotter, N. 2002). The emphasis on professional development recognizes technology as an important engaging practice that helps teachers to create work strategies, follow up and monitor learning (Paulson, K. 2002) while they re-signify the roles of teachers in face to face and virtual interaction (Savin, 2003, Lee & Tsai, 2010; Major, 2010; Natriello, 2005, Leyva, 2010).