The impact of the unforeseen factors on the teaching practice of student teachers

Year 2017, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 74 - 84, 29.05.2017

Muhlise Coşgun Ögeyik

Abstract

The intricacies confronted with teaching skills of student teachers of English may arise from a variety of sources. Knowing about teaching is different from performing teaching. Student teachers may find teaching English demanding, even though they theoretically know about the main goals of the teaching. This study investigated the impact of the unforeseen factors on the teaching practice of student teachers. A descriptive study was conducted with the participation of 154 student teachers at a Turkish university. In the study, the effects of the teacher training related issues such as motivation, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and teaching strategy awareness were investigated. On the whole, the study suggests that teacher training is not merely to introduce theoretical knowledge, but to incorporate convincing suggestions about the unforeseen teacher or teaching related concerns into the training process

Keywords

student teachers, motivation, self-esteem, self-efficacy, teaching strategies

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