This study explored the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in supporting pre-service teachers (PSTs) during their work-integrated learning placements, focusing on its role in lesson planning, teaching and WIL crisis resolution. Using the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology framework, the study investigated how…

Teacher education is effective when pre-service teachers are able to transfer knowledge from content areas to practice. This study investigates the extent to which curriculum and assessment designs, along with teaching practices, supported pre-service teachers to transfer knowledge gained about language from a first-year course into a second-year…

In view of the well-known disadvantages of lecturing, and the practicability of teaching without them, why does lecturing remain the standard method in universities? To increase the chances of lectures being good, they should be fewer, and to offset their deficiencies they should be regarded as only one component of a combination of methods used…