The Teacher's Competence ‘Promoting Use and Reflection on Language’ in an oral Interaction Task

In the last years, various documents have been published (Instituto Cervantes, 2012, ; CIEP 2013) which will become referents in reflecting, researching and initiating projects dealing with the foreign language teacher's competence. Those documents present the teacher's competences categorized, described, and in stages of development. However, we are not provided yet with an inventory of the resources the teacher uses. With this study we aim at contributing to initiating this path of identifying and describing the competent teacher's resources. We will analyse an oral interaction task recorded in the Spanish Foreign Language classroom, with regards to the specific competence Promoting language use and reflection upon it (Instituto Cervantes, 2012). Researches like this can aid to explore the foreign language teacher's competence, thus facilitating his/her self-assessment and assessment, and to start up action research projects on the teacher's competence.