Research Article

Pre-Service ELT Teachers Appreciate Hands-On Work for Their Professional Learning: A Qualitative Case Study

Number: 63 March 27, 2025
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Pre-Service ELT Teachers Appreciate Hands-On Work for Their Professional Learning: A Qualitative Case Study

Abstract

Pre-service teacher professional learning could be affected by a range of factors such as pre-service teachers’ prior schooling experiences and the effectiveness of the courses offered in the pre-service teacher education program. The absence of research in the literature carried out to examine second-year pre-service English teachers’ perceptions concerning their experiences of planning a lesson to teach a speech act and giving a presentation on it encouraged the researchers to conduct this investigation. This qualitative case study investigates 25 sophomore pre-service English teachers’ perceptions with regard to the effect of preparing a lesson plan for the teaching of a speech act they selected and the presentations they made on it in online Pragmatics and Language Teaching course to their professional learning. The data was collected from a qualitative survey and semi-structured telephone interviews. The inductive analysis of the gathered data revealed that the pre-service English teachers contended preparing a lesson plan to teach the speech acts they chose and giving a presentation on it enhanced their professional learning. The findings also indicated the pre-service English teachers’ desire for more hands-on work starting from the first year in the pre-service English teacher education program.

Keywords

Hands-on work , Lesson planning , Making a presentation , Pre-service teacher professional learning , Speech acts

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APA
Koşar, G., & Akbana, Y. E. (2025). Pre-Service ELT Teachers Appreciate Hands-On Work for Their Professional Learning: A Qualitative Case Study. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Buca Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 63, 617-634. https://doi.org/10.53444/deubefd.1551473