General Recommendations
- There is a need for professional development across multilingual Europe;
- There is a need for life long learning; (CL12)
- There is a need for competences and skills acquired through dedicated
training models; (SLE 3)
- Continuous interdisciplinary professional development for teaching staff
should be undertaken; (SLE6)
- Professional competencies should be built according to a common accredit
ation system; (SLE 10)
- There is a need for innovative pedagogical resources to be developed;
(Phon4)
- There is a need for the promotion of mobility through multilateral
international recognition of credits and commonly agreed degree
requirements; (CL6, Phon3)
- Old barriers between the humanities and science/engineering must be
lowered; (CL8,Phon6)
- Professional skills must be developed that lead to the generation of
reflective practitioners; (CD6)
- There needs to be a closer interdisciplinary collaboration among
specialists of speech communication sciences; (CD7)
- There is a need for access to continuous training opportunities to meet
the challenges posed by the introduction of new pedagogical methods; (CD8)
- Professional standards should be evaluated at a European level; (CD12,
CD13)
Specific Recommendations
- There is a need for the organisation of summer schools and courses;
(SLe12, CL13, Phon7)
- There is a need for more intensive exchange of scholarly resources and
techniques between industry and academia; (NEL4)
- Systematic teacher training should be encouraged through affordable,
publicly funded workshops, tutorials, summer schools, and the like; (NEL12)
- Learned societies need to be involved through special interest groups;
(CL14, Phon:Notes)
- There is a need for the observance of professional ethics; (CD5)
- An advisory network needs to be developed which includes representative
professional bodies and educationalists in SLT. (CD12)
Responsible author: Tom Bronsted, 16th October 2000
Recommendations on Professional Development
Based on the work done by the Socrates TNP on Language and Speech during the
years 1997-2000, the JEWELS project has made a number of recommendations. These
are classified under the headings of:
Tom Bronsted, 16th October 2000.