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ERIC Number: EJ1253545
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1307-4733
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Dilemmas in Teaching English in Multigrade Classrooms: Classroom Teachers' Perceptions on English as a Foreign Language Course
Dogan, Fatma Seyma; Çapan, Seyit Ahmet; Cigerci, Fatih Mehmet
Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), v14 n1 p52-68 2020
The Higher Council of Education in Turkey (CoHE) has mandated the inclusion of a course titled 'Foreign Language Teaching in Primary Schools' in the curriculum of classroom teacher education in 2018. Although there are some attempts to release coursebooks based on the predetermined curriculum for that course, these attempts and the curriculum are generic and largely uninformed of the needs and views of actual practitioners. Hence, the present study examined inservice classroom teachers' views on possible content to include in the above mentioned course. Moreover, the present study investigated perceived needs and deficiencies of classroom teachers in teaching English in their classrooms. Designed as a qualitative study, the present study collected data from 33 multigrade class teachers through an open-ended questionnaire. The present study revealed that multigrade class teachers perceived their own proficiency in English to be too low to teach it. Furthermore, the results pinpointed that teachers perceived their students' L1 level as an obstacle for effectively teaching them English. Finally, the present study implied that designing a curriculum responsive to particular needs and requirements of multigrade classes might be a viable solution to improve the quality of foreign language teaching in multigrade classes.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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