A Descriptive Study on in-Service English Language Teachers' Perceptions of the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) in Turkish Setting

Autor/inn/en	Önal, Ahmet; Alagözlü, Nuray
Titel	A Descriptive Study on in-Service English Language Teachers' Perceptions of the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) in Turkish Setting
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 14 (2018) 3, S.56-76 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Önal, Ahmet) ORCID (Alagözlü, Nuray)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Language Teachers; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Elementary School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; College Faculty; Likert Scales; Goodness of Fit; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Fakultät; Likert-Skala; Türkei
Abstract	This article aims to arrive at an understanding of in-service language teachers' perceptions of the EPOSTL self assessment descriptors in relation to Turkish Foreign Language Education context. More specifically, the researcher aims to reveal the categories of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors that have been regarded more important by in-service English language teachers who work for primary, secondary and tertiary level institutions as well as reviewing the suitability and applicability of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors for the Turkish context. Adopting a quantitative and quasi-qualitative research design, this study utilized the 195 self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL as the items of the questionnaire in the form of a '5 point Likert-type scale' and an open-ended question has been added as the 196th item to collect qualitative data. The means of the in-service English language teachers' answers have been computed for the whole document and for the categories of the self assessment descriptors via descriptive statistics involving mean and frequency analyses. As a second step, the distribution of the data has been analyzed via 'Kolmogorov-Smirnov Goodness-of-Fit Test'. As the distribution of the data is not normal, a non-parametric test, rather than a parametric test, has been employed in order to find out the level of differences between and among the groups of in-service English language teachers. Additionally, 'Kruskal-Wallis H Test' has been conducted and 'pairwise comparisons' have been performed as a last step in order to reveal the self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL that have been attached meaningfully different importance by in-service English language teachers working for different levels of institutions. The findings of this study indicate that the self-assessment descriptors of the EPOSTL have largely been welcomed by in-service language teachers in Turkish context. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01