In search of developing practical knowledge in pre-service EFL teachers: A proposed model

Year 2019, Volume: 15 Issue: 3, 1000 - 1010, 01.10.2019

Sibel Ersel Kaymakamoğlu

https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.631543

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In search of developing practical knowledge in pre-service EFL teachers: A proposed model
This study aimed to explore the ways of helping EFL pre-service teachers gain and develop practical theories related to teaching EFL. For this purpose, the researcher deviced a model primarily based on  creating awareness on pre-service teachers related to basic methodological knowledge of teaching besides their strenghts and weaknesses related to their classroom practice in search of helping them to form practical knowledge needed for teaching. The model aimed to support the student teachers’ practical knowledge construction by creating micro-teaching sessions in which they could put their theoretical knowledge into practice, feedback sessions in which they could receive teacher evaluation, peer evaluation and engaging them into the process of self reflection as well with the help of self-monitoring. The data were collected during  13 weeks in which every student teacher found 50- minute four micro-teaching session opportunities: two micro-teaching sessions for reading and two micro-teaching sessions for teaching listening. The data were collected from pre-service teachers’ self-evaluation reports, peer evaluation rubrics, lesson plans and teacher evaluation documents in each micro-teaching sessions in order to see the development if there was any during 13 weeks. At the end of the process, the student teachers were also asked to express their views about the process of learning and it was found that the proposed model created awareness in them about the difference between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge besides helped their practical knowledge construction.
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practical knowledge, pre-service EFL teachers

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