Describing and Evaluating the English Language Teacher Education System in Libya

Abstract

Language Teacher Training (LTT) programmes are generally designed to help students studying to be language teachers or even inexperienced teachers to develop a better style of teaching. Usually, such programmes involve the participants being observed by experts whilst teaching. The experts will later guide the trainees to achieve the above-mentioned objective by taking record and later commenting on the pros and cons of the lesson or on the performance of the trainee being observed in general. Ideally, language teachers should graduate from LTT centers that are dedicated only to teacher training. However, In some countries, such as the one in question here - Libya, language teachers graduate from language departments in humanities or education faculties at Universities; and sometimes even from faculties of Arts and Science. Given that such faculties are not specialised in teacher training, the result is questionable.