CREATIVE TEACHER COMPETENCIES FOR SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

The objective of this research was projected to identify the challenges and challenges of the role of the creative teacher in the teaching of a second language and to determine the importance it has in the development of learning through distance education, based on knowledge through of the network, being the teacher who accompanies the student in this learning process. It starts from the analysis of various authors in relation to these conceptions that consolidates and affirms their relevance with educational content and innovative strategies in teaching, offering quality options to students. Among the types of research that were used, we found: Non-experimental, Descriptive and Exploratory, reviewing bibliographies, scientific articles and citations. The methods on which this research was supported were; the Analytical - Deductive. Two questionnaires were used to obtain data: the student survey and the interview with the authorities and teachers in the second language area. In its outcome it is reflected that the teaching role, pedagogy, didactics and creativity require specific spaces for analysis, reflection and application throughout the teaching-learning process; The teaching of a second language requires that creative teacher, with identity, with comprehensive training, with resources and tools that allow the practice of all the innovations inherent to this process, and; distance or virtual education as an inherent capacity of the human being that needs to be practiced in order to turn it into a skill.

Keywords: Competences; creativity; virtual education; teaching performance.