A Comparative Study of the Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Readiness of American versus Turkish Language Teachers

Autor/in	Kaloti, Yesim Ozek
Titel	A Comparative Study of the Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Readiness of American versus Turkish Language Teachers
Quelle	In: Journal of International Education Research, 12 (2016) 2, S.53-60 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-0979
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Teachers; Second Language Instruction; Comparative Analysis; Self Efficacy; Readiness; Cross Cultural Studies; Student Teachers; Student Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Statistical Analysis; Questionnaires; Self Concept; English (Second Language); Nonparametric Statistics; Semi Structured Interviews; Arizona; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Schülerverhalten; Qualitative Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Fragebogen; Selbstkonzept; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Türkei
Abstract	Contrasting studies of foreign language teacher education have become a growing interest among educationists and researchers in different countries (Yoder, 1992; McKay & Montgomery, 1995; Baker & Giacchino-Baker, 2000; Stachowski & Sparks, 2007; Firmin, M. W., Firmin, R & MacKay, F. M., 2008; LaFond & Dogancay-Aktuna, 2009; Ozek, 2009). Such studies emphasize the importance of comparing and understanding different education programs and enables student teachers to think more globally with respect to their language career. These contrasting studies investigate different aspects of foreign language (FL) teaching programs. The present study reports a comparison of the student teachers of an American and Turkish university regarding their satisfaction and readiness in language teaching, and their attitudes towards language teaching theories and teacher education program. The study aims to discover the teacher trainees' perceptions with an in-depth understanding and compare the differences among them. Therefore, the researcher employed an interconnection of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data were collected through self-report questionnaires and interviews. The results indicated that there were some significant differences between the subjects in two groups regarding their readiness, their attitudes towards their education programs and their self-perceptions as teacher candidates. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01