ERIC Number: EJ964143
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Apr
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-6882
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Pre-Service Teacher Cognition and Vocabulary Teaching
Macalister, John
RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, v43 n1 p99-111 Apr 2012
The knowledge and beliefs that teachers hold are an important determiner of what happens in the classroom. Ideally teacher cognition should be informed by research and theory about effective language learning. This paper examines the beliefs related to vocabulary teaching held by a cohort of 60 Malaysian pre-service teachers engaged in a multi-year trans-national teacher education programme. It also examines how these beliefs are reflected in descriptions of imagined teaching. This examination suggests that pre-service teachers hold beliefs that coincide with those of their trainers to some extent, but that they do not give effective expression to their beliefs in descriptions of teaching. It may therefore be more appropriate to focus on developing knowledge of language teaching practices in pre-service teacher education than on beliefs. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Schemata (Cognition), Language Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Malaysia; New Zealand
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