Moving From Theory to Practice: ELT Pre-service Teachers

Şaziye Yaman, Meryem Özdemir

Abstract


This study was conducted to investigate the perceptual change in pre-service teachers’ effective teacher beliefs throughout their education in English Language Teaching (ELT) Department of which programme is constructed spirally from theoretical knowledge to the practical one. Throughout a data collection procedure lasted 5 academic terms, 80 pre-service teachers were asked to write their ideas about “the characteristics of an effective teacher”. In each time, as the pre-service teachers moved from theoretical courses to practical ones, the data obtained at each time was analyzed through content analysis and classified under 3 semantic groups; “content knowledge, classroom behaviours, academic qualities”. Results showed that pre-service teachers’ beliefs of effective teacher changed throughout their teacher education programme as they moved from theory to practice.


Keywords


Effective teacher beliefs, effective teacher, pre-service teachers’ beliefs

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/ijalel.v.1n.1p.27

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