ERIC Number: EJ1085082
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Dec
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Examining Student Teachers' Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: Insights from a Teacher Education Program in Turkey
Ozmen, Kemal Sinan; Aydin, Hale Ülkü
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, v40 n12 Article 10 Dec 2015
Teachers' beliefs about language learning and teaching are largely shaped during pre-service teacher education. Although many empirical studies have analyzed various dimensions of how student teachers' beliefs and practices are formed, the literature is scarce with the research on student teacher's beliefs about oral corrective feedback. For the field of English language teaching, student teachers' beliefs about correcting erroneous utterances count for their future instructional choices. Thus, as an uncharted territory of inquiry, this issue merits a scholarly attention. To this end, the present study investigated the stated beliefs and behaviors of 98 nonnative student teachers via various qualitative tools; an interview and a simulation offering 20 classroom situations. The results showed that although most student teachers held a constructivist belief in defining teaching, their oral corrective feedback strategies varied in terms of correcting errors that relate to language proficiency, language components and task type.
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Error Correction, Language Proficiency, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Simulation, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Oral Language, Feedback (Response), Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Development, Questionnaires
Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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