EVOLUTION OF PEDAGOGICAL PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION IN INITIAL TRAINING OF ENGLISH TEACHERS IN CUBA

Abstract

Cuban society today requires English teachers to be educators, to love their profession, to master the language, to be bearers of a culture enriched with the cultural elements of the countries that speak the language, and to have a high sense of individual and social responsibility to guarantee the teaching. To achieve this, professional pedagogical orientation must promote actions that lead to a quality education, with full awareness of the way of acting and the needs of the profession resolved. Thus, the accumulated experience must be taken into account, as well as the needs and perspectives of Cuban socio-economic and cultural development. This article contains a contextual historical study of the professional orientation in the Didactics of Foreign Languages pedagogical process, according to the context of the initial formation of English teachers in Cuba. In this research, it contributed to identify and understand the causes of current insufficiencies, in order to retake the successes, to avoid repeating the mistakes and to project new actions to regulate the future. The regularities and tendencies described lead to deepen the understanding of the current state of the problem, its causes and future evolution. This allows to justify the need of changes for its solution and the social significance of future results to be achieved.