“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered down”: The Influence Of EFL Context On The Teacher Beliefs Of A Native English-Speaking Teacher

Abstract

The 1970s witnessed a paradigm shift in research into language learning and teaching with focus moving away from process-product approach to the study of teachers and their cognitions. This shift in research led teaching to be viewed as a cognitive process not merely in terms of behavior, and teachers as decision makers in the classroom not as merely implementers of external theories. In the same decade, teacher cognition emerged as a separate domain of research that investigates what teachers know, think and believe. Teaching context is one of the factors that influence the formation of teacher beliefs and the enactment of these beliefs. The present study is an attempt at understanding the influence of EFL setting on teacher beliefs of a native English-speaking teacher. To this end, a single native speaker English teacher was selected and data were collected through a number of tools. The data were analyzed using grounded theory data analysis steps. The current study found that context has certain influence on teachers’ beliefs and teachers’ pedagogical practices. It also found that the changes that occurred in the participant teacher’s beliefs were behavioral rather than cognitive and that the context’s influence on which beliefs teachers enact in practice is relatively more marked.

Keywords

• Cognition
• EFL context
• native speaker
• teacher beliefs

“Sivrilen Çivi Dövülür”: Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce Bağlamının Ana Dili İngilizce Olan Bir Öğretmenin Öğretmen İnanışları Üzerindeki Etkisi

Abstract

1970’ler dil öğrenimi ve öğretimi alanındaki araştırmada odağın süreç-sonuç yaklaşımından uzaklaşıp öğretmenlerin ve onların bilişlerinin çalışmasına kaydığı bir paradigma değimine tanık oldu. Bu değişim öğretimin yalnızca davranışsal olarak değil aynı zamanda bir bilişsel süreç ve öğretmenlerin de dış reçetelerin mekanik uygulayıcıları değil de sınıftaki karar vericiler olarak görülmesine sebep oldu. Öğretmen bilişi öğretmenlerin ne bildiği, ne düşündüğü ve neye inandığını araştıran ayrı bir araştırma alanı olarak ortaya çıktı. Öğretim ortamı öğretmen inanışları ve bu inanışların uygulanmasını etkileyen faktörlerden biridir. Bu çalışma yabancı dil olarak İngilizce bağlamının ana dili İngilizce olan bir öğretmenin öğretmen inanışları üzerindeki etkisini anlamaya çalışmaktadır. Bu amaçla, Türkiye’de çalışan ana dili İngilizce olan bir öğretmen seçildi ve veriler birkaç farklı araçla toplandı. Veriler gömülü teori analiz basamakları kullanılarak incelendi. Mevcut çalışma bağlamın öğretmenlerin inanışları ve onların pedagojik uygulamaları üzerinde belli bir etkiye sahip olduğunu buldu. Çalışma aynı zamanda katılımcı öğretmenin inanışlarında meydana gelen değişimin bilişsel olmaktan çok davranışsal olduğu ve bağlamın etkisinin öğretmenlerin hangi inanışları uygulama koyduğu konusunda daha belirgin olduğu sonucuna vardı.

Keywords

• Biliş
• yabancı dil olarak İngilizce bağlamı
• anadil konuşuru
• öğretmen inanışları

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