Language Teaching Profile Characterization According to Teaching Areas: Students' Perceptions

Teaching is an action that seems easy to do, but in reality, it implies knowing methodologies, classroom management techniques, subject content, and the most crucial competencies to put them in an instructional scenario. Considering this background, the study aims to characterize the language teacher profile by identifying the dimensions presented in the praxis of the Teaching English Bachelor's (LEI) program at the Faculty of Languages, framed in response to the training needs of future teachers, in order to address new educational challenges. Regarding the methodology, a quantitative approach with a descriptive scope and a cross-sectional cohort design was employed in a sample of 254 evaluations, yielding the following results: the English foreign language teacher profile encompasses five basic dimensions in their practice, namely planner, mediator, learning outcome, socio-affective, and generic skills. In this sense, the place occupied by each area of the LEI educational program based on the frequency with which it uses the five dimensions is 1) Research, 2) Spanish, 3) Target Language, 4) Teaching, 5) Linguistics, 6) Translation, and 7) Culture. In conclusion, the ideal attributes of the English language teacher are characterized by the development of strategic programming, mediation for learning, creativity in the design of activities and educational material to promote meaningful learning, adequate evaluation of the expected content and knowledge, generation of an affective and empathetic environment, use of the foreign language and educational innovation through the application of technological resources, to promote comprehensive training in the student, which integrated give significance to the study.