ERIC Number: EJ1147203
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Identifying Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching EFL and Their Potential Changes
Suárez Flórez, Sergio Andrés; Basto Basto, Edwin Arley
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, v19 n2 p167-184 Jul-Dec 2017
This study aims at identifying pre-service teachers' beliefs about teaching English as a foreign language and tracking their potential changes throughout the teaching practicum. Participants were two pre-service teachers in their fifth year of their Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages program in a public university in Colombia. Data were gathered through a modified version of Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory before the practicum, eight weekly journal entries administered during ten weeks, and two semi-structured interviews at the end of the teaching practicum. The findings revealed that most of the pre-service teachers' beliefs changed once they faced the reality of the classroom.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Practicums, Attitude Change, Semi Structured Interviews, Attitude Measures, State Universities, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Error Correction, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Learning Motivation
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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: Colombia
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