Berit Hope Blå

• Blå, Berit Hope; Grønn, Berit; Brkan-Masud, Altijana & Gjesdal, Anje Müller (2025). Å bli fremmedspråklærer: utvikling av profesjonsidentitet hos fransk-, spansk-og tyskstudenter i grunnskolelærerutdanningen. ELLA – Education, Literature, Language – Utdanning, litteratur, språk. 3(5). doi: 10.58215/ella.59. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Few students in the Teacher Education for Primary and Lower Secondary School, Years 5–10 (GLU) choose foreign languages, and there is limited research on this group. This article examines the development of professional identity of students studying French, Spanish, and German. Drawing on a sociocultural and lifelong learning perspective, we explore the students’ process of forming an identity as a future foreign language teacher. The empirical data consists of qualitative interviews with 16 students between their second and fifth year of study. The interviews explore their emerging development, experiences, and assumptions about foreign language teaching – from their own school experiences, through their teacher education programme, and to their future teaching careers. The findings show that both earlier experiences with inspiring schoolteachers and recent interactions in the teacher education programme serve as positive role models for the students’ professional identity development. However, we also find examples of negative experiences that students aim to avoid as future teachers. Previous research suggests that personal interest in languages and experiences from one's own schooling are key factors in subject choice and future teaching practice, a finding confirmed by our study. The students emphasise a sense of safety in the learning situation and varied, practical-communicative approaches as hallmarks of good teaching, which they strive to achieve. They demonstrate openness to exploring language together with pupils, adapting to pupils’ abilities, interests, and needs. The findings indicate that these students are prepared to further develop their subject knowledge and subject didactic competence, and to enter their roles as a foreign language teacher with a reflective and critical mindset, qualities that will benefit collaboration with colleagues in the future.

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• Grønn, Berit; Blå, Berit Hope; Brkan-Masud, Altijana & Gjesdal, Anje Müller (2023). Flerspråklighet i et nettbasert tilbud i fremmedspråk for grunnskolelærerutdanningen. Full text in Research Archive
• Grønn, Berit & Blå, Berit Hope (2022). Nasjonal tilbyder i fransk, spansk og tysk i GLU 5-10: utviklingsavtalen med KD og satsingsområdet "Språk i opplæringen". Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope; Grønn, Berit & Fredheim, Nina Skajaa (2022). Oppleverlser fra egen skolehverdag påvirket valg av språkstudier. [Internet]. Høgskolen i Østfold . Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2020). Fagfornyelsen i fremmedspråk:Prosess, produkt – og praksis. Hvordan oppnå dybdelæring i språkfag? Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2020). 1.Schreibprozesse gestalten und Schreibkompetenz entwickeln Textsortenspezifisches Schreiben im Deutschunterricht. Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2020). Fagfornyelsen i fremmedspråk:Prosess, produkt – og praksis. Hvordan organisere og gjennomføre dybdelæring i språkfag? Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2019). Fagfornyelsen relatert til fremmedspråk: Prosess, produkt – og praksis Hvordan organisere og gjennomføre dybdelæring i språkfag? Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2019). Schüleraktivierende Methoden - mündliche Interaktion. Full text in Research Archive
• Blå, Berit Hope (2019). Fagfornyelsen (LK20): «Det store og vesle faget Framandspråk» - personer, pålegg, prosess og produkt. Full text in Research Archive

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