Teachers need to thoroughly understand the subjects they teach. In some cases, teachers are tasked with teaching unfamiliar content for various reasons. To ensure pre-service teachers are well prepared, higher education teacher training programs should integrate unfamiliar content knowledge into the required microteaching sessions. The purpose of…

As Korea has recently become a multicultural society, English teachers acknowledge the need to address anti-racism in the classroom. However, how to raise students' racial awareness and ways to incorporate racial issues into English language instruction have not been sufficiently studied in the Korean teacher education context. The aims of this…

This study aimed to assess pre-service teachers' knowledge base of teaching and the extent they perceive and reflect its implementation in a microteaching course. Employing mixed-methods design, the study involved pre-service teachers in a state university in Special Territory of Yogyakarta. The quantitative data were collected from a test on the…

This study aimed to explore the ways of helping pre-service EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers gain and develop practical theories related to teaching EFL. For this purpose, the researcher devised a model primarily based on creating awareness on pre-service EFL teachers related to basic methodological knowledge of teaching besides their…