Being a reflective teacher means developing him/herself continuously,
and it requires collecting data about their teaching styles, attitudes and
teaching practices and using this information for critical reflection in their
courses. In this study, the researcher aimed to change the contents of her
courses, materials and teaching techniques in line with the students ‘requests
and also show that the students’ ideas were taken into consideration and they
were included in the process of deciding what to do in the courses.. For this
reason, “five-minutes papers”, which is one of the tools used to achieve
formative feedback from learners, was used and two questions were asked to the students:1- “What were your
expectations from the course? Have they been met?” 2.“Is there anything that
should be done differently?”. It was administered to the freshmen(49 students)
for “Lexical Competence”, to the juniors(75 students) for “Methodology”
and to the seniors (54 students)
for “English Language Testing and Evaluation” courses at English Language
Teaching Department in Buca Faculty of Education at Dokuz Eylül University at
the end of the 2014-2015 academic year in the last ten minutes of their
courses. Students’ suggestions were collected and analyzed by the researcher and
their positive and negative ideas were collected under some main headings for
each course and provided with the number
of the students
Five-minutes papers reflective teaching teaching practices teaching styles
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 17 Aralık 2018 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 21 Haziran 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2018 Cilt: 4 Sayı: 2 |
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