Teacher Learning during Transition from Pre-service to Novice EFL Teacher: A Longitudinal Case Study

Dil öğretmenliği eğitiminde, dikkat ağırlıklı olarak öğretmen öğrenimi ve bilişinin içeriği üzerine odaklanmıştır. Öğretmen öğrenimi ve bilişsel değişimi süreçleri nispeten daha az keşfedilmiş haldedir. Örneğin, kariyer yörüngesindeki önemine rağmen, İngilizce öğretmen eğitimi programları ile öğretimin ilk yılları arasındaki geçiş süreciyle ilgili sınırlı ampirik kanıt bulunmaktadır. Mevcut çalışmalar, tamamlanmasından sonra öğretmek için hazırlıksız olduklarını ve öğretmen eğitim programlarında öğrendiklerinin uygulanmasında birçok zorlukla karşılaştıklarını ortaya koymaktadır. Bu makale, yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğretimi bağlamında okul topluluklarına katılım yoluyla öğretmen öğrenmesini araştıran beş vaka çalışmasının ön bulgularını sunmaktadır. Öğretmen adayları ile hizmet öncesi öğretmen eğitimi programının bir parçası olan öğretmenlik uygulaması öncesinde ve sırasında görüşmeler yapılmış ve aynı katılımcılar öğretmenliklerinin ilk yıllarında da görüşmelerle takip edilmiştir. Bulgular, okul uygulamalarının öğretmen eğitimi idealleriyle çeliştiği bir bağlamda, öğretmen adaylarının okul topluluğuna katılımı, okullarda süregiden konvansiyonel dil öğretim uygulamalarına uyum sağlamayı teşvik ettiğini gösterdi. Çalışma, dil öğretmenliği eğitiminde araştırma ve uygulama için çıkarımlar içermektedir

Hizmet Öncesinden Acemi Öğretmenliğe Geçiş Sürecinde Öğretmen Öğrenimi: Boylamsal Bir Vaka Çalışması

In language teacher education literature, attention is predominantly centered on the content of teacher learning and cognition. The process of teacher learning and cognitive change over time remains relatively underexplored. For instance, despite its importance in career trajectory, there is limited empirical evidence on the transition process from English language teacher education programmes to the early years of teaching. Existing studies suggest that novice teachers experience a lack of preparedness to teach after completion of the teacher education programmes and encounter many challenges in implementing what they were taught at teacher education programmes. This article presents the preliminary findings on five case studies exploring teacher learning through participation in school communities in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. The student teachers were interviewed before and during the practicum which was a part of their pre-service teacher education programme, and they were followed up with further interviews in the initial years of teaching. The findings showed that in a context where the school practices conflicted with the teacher’s educational ideals, student teacher participation in the school community fostered adaptation towards conventional language teaching practices at schools. The study has implications for research and practice in language teacher education

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