@article{article_528032, title={A descriptive study on in-service English language teachers’ perceptions of the European portfolio for student teachers of languages (EPOSTL) in Turkish setting}, journal={Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies}, volume={14}, pages={56–76}, year={2018}, author={Önal, Ahmet and Alagözlü, Nuray}, keywords={EPOSTL}, abstract={<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border:none;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:456.3pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Please fill up the following information accurately. (Please use Times New Roman, 12 pt. </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> A descriptive study on in-service English language teachers’ perceptions of the European portfolio for student teachers of languages (EPOSTL) in Turkish setting </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px;"> This article aims to arrive at an understanding of in-service language teachers’ perceptions of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors in relation to Turkish Foreign Language Education context. More specifically, the researcher aims to reveal the categories of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors that have been regarded more important by in-service English language teachers who work for primary, secondary and tertiary level institutions as well as reviewing the suitability and applicability of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors for the Turkish context. Adopting a quantitative and quasi-qualitative research design, this study utilized the 195 self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL as the items of the questionnaire in the form of a ‘5 point Likert-type scale’ and an open-ended question has been added as the 196 th  item to collect qualitative data. The means of the in-service English language teachers’ answers have been computed for the whole document and for the categories of the self-assessment descriptors via descriptive statistics involving mean and frequency analyses. As a second step, the distribution of the data has been analyzed via ‘Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test’. As the distribution of the data is not normal, a non-parametric test, rather than a parametric test, has been employed in order to find out the level of differences between and among the groups of in-service English language teachers. Additionally, ‘Kruskal-Wallis H Test’ has been conducted and ‘pairwise comparisons’ have been performed as a last step in order to reveal the self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL that have been attached meaningfully different importance by in-service English language teachers working for different levels of institutions. The findings of this study indicate that the self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL have largely been welcomed by in-service language teachers in Turkish context. </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Information about Author(s)* </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="608" colspan="2" style="width:456.3pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Author 1 </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="243" valign="top" style="width:182.5pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Author (Last name, First name) </td> <td width="365" valign="top" style="width:273.8pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;border-right:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;">  Önal, Ahmet </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="243" valign="top" style="width:182.5pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Affiliated institution (University) </td> <td width="365" valign="top" style="width:273.8pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid 1pt;border-right:solid 1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;">   Suleyman Demirel University </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="243" valign="top" style="width:182.5pt;border:solid 1pt;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;"> Country </}, number={3}, publisher={Hacettepe Üniversitesi}