The Pre-Service Teachers’ Reflection-on-Action during Distance Practicum: A Critical View on EBA TV English Courses

Abstract

This study touched upon a current issue; online education offered during the pandemic: Pre-service teachers’ observations of the EBA lessons offered via online platform to the students were focused on. In that context, the pre-service teachers’ reflections on the EBA TV English lessons in K12 were examined. To describe the offered online teaching process and reveal the good and problematic sides as well as to have the suggestions for better practices, the reflection-on-action approach was adopted and the participants’ critical reflections were analyzed through the qualitative case study. The overall results indicated that the participants appreciated some of the practices in EBA lessons while they were mostly critical to material and activity choices. As for the overall evaluation, they were also emphasized the lack of interaction as the disadvantage of the online education, particularly for language learning. The suggestions to improve the teaching practices on this platform were explained.

Keywords

• Reflection-on-action
• qualitative case study
• pre-service teachers

Öğretmen Adaylarının Uzaktan Staj Uygulamasında Eylem üzerine Yansıtmaları: EBA TV İngilizce Derslerine dair Eleştirel bir Bakış

Öz

Bu çalışmada pandemi süresince verilen uzaktan eğitim konusuna değinilmiştir: Öğretmen adaylarının, bu süreç boyunca EBA TV üzerinden verilen derslerde yaptıkları gözlemlere odaklanılmıştır. Bu bağlamda, öğretmen adaylarının ilkokul, ortaokul ve lise düzeylerinde verilen dersler üzerine yansıtmaları incelenmiştir. Uzaktan eğitim sürecini tanımlamak, iyi ve sorunlu yönlerini ortaya çıkarmak ve iyileştirmeye yönelik önerileri ortaya çıkarmak için, eylem üzerine yansıtma yaklaşımı benimsenmiştir ve katılımcıların eleştirel yansıtmaları nitel durum çalışması yöntemi ile analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlar katılımcıların, EBA derslerindeki bazı uygulamaları takdir ettiğini öte yandan material ve etkinlik seçimlerini eleştirdiklerini göstermiştir. Ayrıca, uzaktan eğitimde etkileşim eksikliğinin özellikle yabancı dil öğrenmde ciddi bir dezavantaj olduğunu vurgulamışlardır. Uygulamayı geliştirmeye yönelik önerileri sunulmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Eylem üzerine yansıtma
• nitel durum çalışması
• öğretmen adayları

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