Overview of the challenges of Practicum Practices in English Language Teaching in Turkey: A Meta Synthesis Study on Literature between 2004 and 2019

Uysal, Banu Çiçek Başaran; Savaş, Perihan

doi:10.17679/inuefd.886731

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Empowering mentor teachers for supervision through an online mentor training program

Mutlu‐Gülbak,

Akcan

2024

TESOL Journal

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The study focused on the improvement of supervisory skills among mentor teachers in K‐12 who work with student teachers in an English language teaching program of an English‐medium state university in Istanbul, Turkey. The researchers explored how the mentor teachers' supervisory skills, namely observation and giving feedback, were improved after participating in an online mentor training program. The training program was designed based on Morrison et al.'s (2013) instructional design model and implemented for seven mentors during the practicum period. The program included mentoring tasks that asked mentor teachers to organize reciprocal observation sessions with the student teachers, followed by mutual feedback discussions. The researchers investigated the influence of the tasks through thematic analysis of the mentor teachers' reflection reports. The data showed that the tasks improved mentor teachers' understanding and practice of the supervision process and increased their awareness of their own teaching practices by promoting personal and professional growth. The results suggest that an online mentor training program may have the potential to empower mentor teachers both for their supervisory roles and ongoing professional development.

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Empowering mentor teachers for supervision through an online mentor training program

Mutlu‐Gülbak,

Akcan

2024

TESOL Journal

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Challenges in ELT Practicum: Views and Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers

Karim,

Abbas

2024

JLS

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The present study is an extract from an MA thesis that focuses on the challenges that pre-service teachers in the department of English face during their senior year practicum program. The aim of the study is to find out the perspective of pre-service teachers when it comes to the different factors that make the practicum program challenging. A questionnaire was prepared to obtain data from (107) students from three different universities in the Kurdistan Region. The quantitative data collected revealed that most of the pre-service teachers believe that the practicum program is too short to give them real teaching experience and that they do not have time to reflect on their own teaching. Some other challenges observed during the study are related to the school administrators, the school teachers, and the students’ supervisor.

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A Scoping Review on Practicum of Turkish Pre-Service EFL Teachers during COVID-19

Kızıldağ

Tuncer

2022

OPUS Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The practicum period is a crucial component of teacher education as it embodies the first phases into "real" teaching and thus provides a leap into professional transformation and growth on the side of preservice teachers. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 pandemic jeopardized this period and placed the educational contexts at stake in providing that reality. Within this frame, the present study focuses on the research conducted on the practicum period of Turkish pre-service teachers of English during the pandemic. More specifically, the research question that the article addresses is "what is the nature of studies conducted about Turkish pre-service EFL teachers' practicum period during the COVID-19 pandemic concerning their characteristics, methodologies and contributions to the field?" With the aim of answering the research question, the seven studies conducted in Turkey regarding the practicum during the pandemic were collected and analyzed as to their bibliographic features, methodological orientations, foci and context, with a scoping review methodology. This scoping review demonstrated both positive/beneficial and negative/challenging aspects of the pandemic period for the English language teacher education context of Turkey. The results of the present study displayed a wider lens in perceiving the English language teaching and teacher education settings during both such emergencies and transition from existing to 'new normal'.

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Overview of the challenges of Practicum Practices in English Language Teaching in Turkey: A Meta Synthesis Study on Literature between 2004 and 2019

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Empowering mentor teachers for supervision through an online mentor training program

Empowering mentor teachers for supervision through an online mentor training program

Challenges in ELT Practicum: Views and Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers

A Scoping Review on Practicum of Turkish Pre-Service EFL Teachers during COVID-19

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