Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English
as a Foreign Language
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OUR MISSION
LAKMA links ELT professionals in Lithuania for communication, cooperation, and professional development.
OUR VISION
LAKMA aims at creating a voluntary community of ELT professionals who are willing to socialize and work together towards common goals.
OUR GOALS
-promote creative efforts in ELT;
-enhance prestige of teacher's profession;
- be part of the international community of ELT professionals.
WE ENGLISH TEACHERS AS PROFESSIONALS
•are a community. We are an identifiable group, whose members are interested in interaction with one another for the sake of learning, and also for the enjoyment of exchanging experiences and ideas with sympathetic colleagues.
•are committed. We are committed to reaching certain standards of performance, and we are aware of our responsibility toward our learners and their learning.
•publish. We communicate innovatory ideas, whether theoretical or practical, to one another and to the public at large: through in-house seminars, national or international conferences, journals, or books.
•learn. We don't just teach. We also learn, continually - about our subject matter, about teaching methods, and about many other things that make us better educated and therefore better educators. We read, we listen, we reflect, we discuss.
•are autonomous. Nobody else can tell us what to do; we ourselves are responsible for maintaining professional standards. In principle, therefore, a professional body should set the requirements for accreditation at different levels and should act as ‘gatekeepers', ensuring that teaching is not performed by ill-qualified amateurs.
•are responsible for training new teachers. It is the professional teachers who should be organizing courses and teaching the next generation of practitioners, whether through school-based , college-based, or university-based courses. (Penny Ur)