Online Language Teacher Education in Bangladesh: A Possibility Ahead

Abstract

This exploratory study investigates the possibility of Online Language Teacher Education (OLTE) in Bangladesh for the secondary level English teachers‘ ongoing development. Due to infrastructural limitations such as inadequate number of trainers, availability of training programmes, distance to the training centre, face-toface trainings are often difficult to avail. The authors investigate the level of acceptance of OLTE among the secondary level language teachers in Bangladesh. In this study 40 English language teachers and 10 teacher educators participated and responded to a questionnaire and a follow-up interview. The findings suggest that the English language teachers face problems in traditional training system due to location, schedule conflict, time limitation, and lack of ongoing support. OLTE rather helps them attend trainings overcoming the location and time constraints.