Survey of LCTL Teachers
Bill Johnston (Indiana University) and Louis Janus (University of Minnesota / CARLA) sent out a surveyin 1999 to 2,000 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.
A research report of the survey is also available as a PDF.
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Results of questionnaire: Professional Development Needs of LCTL TeachersName of institution: See
summary of results A. Your teaching situation1. What language do you teach? 2. How many years of this language does your institution offer?
3. Please provide the following information about enrollments at
your institution in a typical year. Indicate if this is exact information
or an approximation:
4. What kind of students do you have? undergraduates? graduate
students? heritage students? a mixture? 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.
| 54 | A new journal devoted to practice and research in LCTL teaching | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 65 | Language enhancement work (working on your own proficiency in the language you teach) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 53 | Opportunities for action research (research on your own classroom that you yourself conduct) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 60 | A conference (e.g. annual) for teachers of LCTLs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 85 | An e-mail list-serve or discussion group for teachers of my language | ||||||||||||||||||||
Workshops or coursework on:
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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.
summary of results
