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Mehmet Sak – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
While motivation has been recognized as a key catalyst for the uptake of self-initiated professional development (PD), motivational changes that occur in the course of self-initiated PD practices remain unexplored in English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts and beyond. Yet this research area warrants closer attention since motivation is a dynamic…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Avci, Yusuf; Celik, Gamze; Pestil, Ayse Dag – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
Language plays a critical role in an individual's adapting to a community and developing a sense of friendship and belonging. In its absence, Humans suffer from a lack of trust in each other since they cannot speak in the same language. If they fail to communicate, this incapability leads to problems. Additionally, individual and common social…
Descriptors: Language Role, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Celen, K. Merve; Akcan, Sumru – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2017
This study aims to evaluate the English Language Teacher Education practicum offered at a state university in Turkey to discover (1) the strengths and weaknesses of the programme and (2) the needs and problems experienced by student teachers. Data were collected through an adapted version of the Survey of Teacher Education Programs (STEP)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Supervisors
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Yayli, Demet – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Since the language used by people has the potential to signal a membership in a discourse community, it is significant that prospective teachers speak the appropriate social language to be able to claim a strong membership in the community of teachers. This qualitative study explores a group of pre-service teachers' professional language use and…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Professional Development