Teacher training programs in EFL contexts pursue the goal of promoting teaching skills and critical dispositions in prospective and experienced teachers and their ability to reflect on and enhance their mediating roles to maximize learning outcomes. Yet, discrepancies in teachers’ roles during and after the programs are not uncommon and accentuate the need to assess outcomes. This quasi-experim...

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

Purpose This paper presents the results of my learning using expertise in teacher-research mentoring to address needs pre-service teachers and requirements action research course English language teaching. It reflects on different procedures model, enriched by dialogic strategies informed Freire's pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach Through this first-person research, author aims improve her ...

The reported study focuses on pre-service teachers’ professional development during the teaching practice. The cohort studied comprised participants in their final year in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science with Graduate Certificate in Education programmes of a university in Fiji. Analysis of the data obtained using a survey questionnaire indicates that overall, the pre-service teache...

We report insights from a design research study in higher education that aims at overcoming pre-service teachers’ experiences of fragmentation their educational programmes. The approach started the assumption could be reduced by initiating and conducting boundary crossing between practices subject matter didactics courses university. Following this assumption, principle design(ing) for interlin...

For EFL teacher education, it’s important to polish pre-service teachers’ pronunciation and their teaching skills. Currently, the training for teachers in China only focuses on improvement lacks element of education so that its efficacy still needs improvement. This paper points out rationale applying Learning-Oriented Assessment (LOA) teachers. Then author discusses evaluation approaches integ...

This study aims to investigate the contribution of translation courses pre-service EFL teachers’ professional skills. Also, it is aimed get in-depth insights from both teachers and instructors in order identify weaknesses strengths teacher education programs. was designed as a qualitative case participants were two course ten teachers. The convenient sampling method used, relevant data collecte...