Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article compares the answers to four questions about teacher education ten years hencewho, what, where and how -from, on the one hand, twenty experienced teacher educators and, on the other, three Large Language Models (LLMs).The trainers expected comparatively little change in who their trainees will be over the decade, anticipated greater use of technology (mostly in the development of existing practice, however), emphasised the importance of soft skills training, and made it clear (implicitly) that for them TESOL is a vocation.The LLM answers differed significantly one from another but in general foresaw more innovative uses of technology than the trainers did and predicted an even greater emphasis on soft skills.The article ends with the author's own view, which is that more will have changed by 2034 than either colleagues or LLMs have predicted -with the latter perhaps intentionally hobbled by their creators.
DOI: 10.58304/ijts.250412
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409400137