ERIC Number: EJ922775
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Dec
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L2 Teachers' Pedagogic Knowledge Base: A Comparison between Experienced and Less Experienced Practitioners
Akbari, Ramin; Tajik, Leila
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, v34 n6 p52-73 Dec 2009
Second language teacher education community has become increasingly interested in the pedagogical knowledge base of teachers as a window into practitioners' mental lives. The present study was conducted to document likely differences between the pedagogic thoughts of experienced and less experienced teachers. Eight teachers participated in the project. Data were collected through the use of stimulated recall. The analysis of the data shows that there are differences both in the number and the order of the thoughts teachers produced in different groups. Experienced teachers produced an average of five pedagogical thoughts per minute, while their less experienced counterparts produced 3 thoughts. The top thought category for less experienced teachers was Language Management, while for the experienced teachers Self-Reflection ranked first. Some thought categories were also absent in the report of less experienced practitioners. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Experience, Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Reflection, Schemata (Cognition), Foreign Countries, Institutes (Training Programs), English (Second Language), Knowledge Base for Teaching
Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ajte.education.ecu.edu.au
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
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