ERIC Number: EJ1325975
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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Triggering Factors That Reinforce or Change EFL Preservice Teachers' Beliefs during the Practicum
PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, v24 n1 p15-28 Jan-Jun 2022
This exploratory case study seeks to examine the role that specific factors exert on the evolution of beliefs in preservice English teachers during their final teaching practicum. Data were collected through reflections, interviews, focus groups, and observations. The findings revealed that three groups of factors affect belief evolution during the practicum: participant subjectivity, contextual circumstances, and university support community. Subjectivities encompassed preservice teachers' fears, reactions to real-life teaching challenges, and enthusiasm to become teachers. Contextual circumstances incorporated classroom circumstances and cooperating teachers. The university support community concerned their peers and the university tutor. Implications discuss the relevance of curricular and reflective agendas that enrich the education of future teachers through beliefs exploration.
Descriptors: Attitude Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Preservice Teachers, Practicums, Language Teachers, Fear, Teaching Experience, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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