The Reflective Approach in Pre-Service Foreign Language Teacher Education (CROSBI ID 660825)
Prilog sa skupa u zborniku | izvorni znanstveni rad | međunarodna recenzija
Podaci o odgovornosti
Mardešić, Sandra
engleski
The Reflective Approach in Pre-Service Foreign Language Teacher Education
Contemporary research in pre-service teacher education has been employing the reflective approach and experimental learning to develop teaching competences. Croatian universities have adopted a similar competence-developing model, but by introducing more teaching- oriented courses and more hours of teaching practice in schools. We investigate and determine that stimulated reflection in form of reflective essays written before and after teaching practice in schools would stimulate cognitive changes in future foreign language teachers—the hypothesis. In this study, 48 first-year graduate students—future teachers of Italian—were asked to self-examine their strong and weak points, elicit the role of their own learners’ experience, and were assisted in reflecting on the competencies gained in their initial level of teacher education. The content analyses of the essays confirmed the hypothesis, but in addition showed that reflective essay stimulated changes in perspectives of their future professional work and clear goal-setting for their further teacher education. Therefore, we conclude that applying this approach to teacher education could significantly contribute to the improved quality of initial teacher training of future foreign language teachers.
reflection ; teacher education ; reflective essay
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Podaci o prilogu
157-174.
2018.
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objavljeno
1-5275-0597-9
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching : methods, evaluation and innovation
Lopes, António ; Raúl Ruiz, Cecilia
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Podaci o skupu
Nepoznat skup
predavanje
29.02.1904-29.02.2096