Title: Pre-service EFL Teacher Education: The Challenges and Opportunities
Stream: Professional development
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Marta Dick-Bursztyn, University of Rzeszów, Poland
Abstract:
The presentation entitled Pre-service EFL Teacher Education: the Challenges and Opportunities aims at addressing some of the issues related to the education of prospective Primary and Secondary School English language teachers in Polish universities - with a particular focus and evaluation of the procedures used in one of them. Among the numerous areas that the complex nature of EFL/SL teacher education entails, there is one that is of particular interest for this study - that is - pre-service teaching practicum. In our small-scale study, the primary aim was to give the under-graduate and graduate pre-service teachers the opportunity to reflect on their time spent at Primary and Secondary Schools doing their teaching practicum (TP). The subsidiary aim was to discover the level of difficulties of the selected ELT areas encountered by these students during their TP. In short, this presentation will address the following objectives: giving a brief overview of pre-service teacher education programmes in general and in Polish higher education in particular, investigating the challenges that some Polish student teachers of EFL face during their practicum, discussing the results of a study on the teaching areas in pre-service teacher education programmes indicated by students as demanding and, finally, providing solutions and recommendations for changes in some aspects of the existing pre-service teacher education programmes.
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