ERIC Number: EJ1367622
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Publication Date: 2022
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CALL Initial Teacher Education in Vietnamese Higher Education: Unheard Voices
Nguyen, Luan T.; Tran, Ngoc Giang
Teaching English with Technology, v22 n3-4 p85-106 2022
The pressing need to prepare Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) professional competence for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teachers has come to be significant to ongoing national reforms to improve English teaching pedagogy. This study employed a convergent mixed-methods research design to investigate the perceptions of Vietnamese EFL pre-service teachers and teacher educators concerning technology preparation and integration into the EFL initial teacher education in Vietnamese higher education. The data included a survey completed by 67 pre-service teachers, a focus group discussion with six of them, and a semi-structured interview with three teacher educators at a higher education institution in Vietnam. Findings reveal that pre-service teachers received significant opportunities to learn regarding CALL-related knowledge within their initial teacher education program. The findings also show a number of substantial factors impacting the integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into the initial teacher education regarding individual teacher educators, individual EFL pre-service teachers, the provision of resources, and CALL technology-related policies. The study suggests that the EFL initial teacher education program needs to take the opportunity to learn and policies on CALL-related pedagogies into account developing pre-service teachers' professional competence.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teacher Education
University of Nicosia (Cyprus) and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland). Ul. J. Sowinskiego 17, 20-041 Lublin, Poland. Web site: http://tewtjournal.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Vietnam
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