2021
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720660
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Abstract: Language teacher beliefs have received increasing research attention for the past few decades. However, little is known about the beliefs of pre-service teachers in the pre-primary English as a foreign language (EFL) education context. This qualitative case study extends this line of inquiry by investigating the trajectory of student teachers' beliefs about teaching English to pre-primary learners in Macau within a teacher education course. The participants included 60 pre-service teachers taking an English La… Show more

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“…It should be mentioned that the course was successful in developing the pre-service teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding these most important aspects of EFL teaching methodology. These findings support Reynolds et al’s [ 66 ] study with pre-service pre-primary teachers in Macau. Also, these findings are generally in line with the literature in L2 teacher education and professional development [ 33 , 44 , 81 , 82 , 83 ].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…It should be mentioned that the course was successful in developing the pre-service teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding these most important aspects of EFL teaching methodology. These findings support Reynolds et al’s [ 66 ] study with pre-service pre-primary teachers in Macau. Also, these findings are generally in line with the literature in L2 teacher education and professional development [ 33 , 44 , 81 , 82 , 83 ].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…As the current study was part of a much larger study on pre-service pre-primary English teacher and teacher educator beliefs, a concept-driven deductive approach was used to select a coding frame. This sixteen-category coding frame was previously developed by the authors for use with a different yet similar dataset obtained from data collection that involved participants with the same educational background and learning goals [ 66 ]. Second, the subcategories were mutually exclusive and based on concepts found in the existing teacher beliefs literature.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This kind of tension has been reported in some other subdisciplines of educational research, such as language education ( Borg, 2015 ; Ha and Murray, 2020 ; Ha et al., 2021 ). The teachers’ desire to help students achieve short-term goals might have been influenced by the exam-oriented teaching and learning contexts ( Ha, 2021 ; Ha and Nguyen, 2021 ; Ha et al., 2021 ; Reynolds et al., 2021 ; Tran et al., 2021a , b ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the main reasons is the usage of the old teaching methods to teach a foreign language [ 32 ]. The second reason is the lack of foreign language practice and communication with teachers [ 33 , 34 ]. This can be overcome by the introduction of a technological component in teaching students.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%