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ICT and Multimedia Competences of Foreign Language Teachers in View of Current Technological Trends and Developments

Two basic competence areas for foreign language teachers (FLTs) are the subject-specific and the educational competences. The subject-specific competences can be subdivided into the competences related to language and culture and the subject-specific teacher competences, the ICT and Multimedia Competences of FLTs being a part of the latter group. With the constant development of new technologies, media and new forms of communication foreign language teachers are faced with the problem of becoming acquainted with a variety of devices, applications and software programs not only because they are used by their students, but also because they could potentially be used in the teaching process. This variety includes, but is not limited to, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, interactive whiteboards, mobile foreign language learning applications, e-books, digital libraries, software services (office cloud applications, online translators, dictionaries) and Web 2.0 applications (especially the free and open source applications). The paper presents the necessary competences FLTs need to attain in the fields of ICT and Multimedia in order to be able to create and develop lesson plans and curricula for their subjects according to the learners' age and the level of their knowledge of the foreign language in which they would appropriately and effectively apply modern ICT technology and/or multimedia.

teacher competences ; foreign languages ; multimedia ; ICT

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