Non-native Student Teachers Research Articles

Connecting collaborative practicums to beliefs: The development of nonnative student teachers’ self-efficacy in native-nonnative trainee collaboration

This qualitative study aimed to fill a research gap by examining the development of self-efficacy beliefs among nonnative-speaking student teachers (NNSTs) in teaching languages other than English. Situated in an international teacher education program for Chinese as a second/foreign language, this study explored the impacts of collaborative practicums on the self-efficacy beliefs of 17 NNSTs while they worked with 28 native-speaking student teachers (NSTs). The collaborative tasks included peer discussions, microteaching, peer observations, and peer feedback. The NNSTs' reflective essays were collected as primary data, supplemented by peer discussion and microteaching videos and peer feedback questionnaires. Using a qualitative methodology that integrated emotion coding and thematic analysis, the study revealed that all four tasks positively influenced NNSTs' self-efficacy beliefs by satisfying their professional engagement intentions. However, tasks involving verbal interactions between NNSTs and NSTs had adverse effects on NNSTs' self-efficacy beliefs, attributed to the limited academic language proficiency of NNSTs and the unsympathetic reactions and linguistic superiority displayed by NSTs. Finally, a three-phase collaborative practicum framework was proposed for language teacher education programs involving mixed native and nonnative trainee groups. This framework highlights the importance of developing inclusive interventions to foster the mutual recognition of nonnative-speaking teachers' values.

Public health and health professional education at a tribal college: a collaborative immersion program in rural North Dakota.

Native Americans have some of the worst health outcomes of any minority group in the USA, and are severely under-represented in the health professional workforce. From 2009 to 2015, partners from a tribal college in rural North Dakota and academic institutions in New York collaborated to create a program wherein non-Native health professionals traveled to the reservation to teach a summer course to Native students. This study assessed the impact of the program on both the Native students who took the course and the non-Native health professionals who taught the course. Focus groups composed of former students in the program were held in Spirit Lake, North Dakota. Non-Native student teachers were surveyed using an online survey tool. Focus group data were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. Survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Fifteen former students participated in the focus groups. Participants stated that their experiences in the course increased interest in health professions and knowledge of public health issues. Participants also described barriers to entering health professionals for Native students and the benefits of close interaction with non-Native individuals. Eighty-six percent (24/28) of former course teachers responded to the survey. Survey respondents stated their experiences in North Dakota increased their understanding of underserved populations and their interest in working in rural areas. This study assessed the successes and limitations of a collaborative, interprofessional immersion program in rural North Dakota. Similar programs may increase the number of Native Americans in health professions and increase non-Native health professional interest in and engagement with rural communities.

Öğretmen Adaylarının Yabancı Dil Kaygısı

Yabancı dil kaygısı ile yabancı dil öğrenimi arasındaki negatif ilişki son kırk yılda iyice yerleşmiştir. Yine de, öğretmen dil kaygısı göreceli olarak incelenmemiş bir fenomen olarak kalmaya devam etmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, anadili İngilizce olmayan yabancı öğretmen adaylarının yabancı dil kaygısı kaynaklarını ve etkilerini incelemektir. Bulgular, katılımcıların olumsuz değerlendirilme korkusu, hatalara ilişkin endişeler ve olumsuz benlik algıları nedeniyle endişe duyduklarını göstermektedir. Dil kaygısının, yabancı dil öğretimi üzerinde daha önce detaylı olarak araştırılmamış birtakım olumsuz etkileri olduğu da görülmektedir.

Identification of sentence types for writing skill in teacher education

This research aims to explore the ability of English majors to identify the four basic types of sentences.  English language has four types of sentences, each kind of sentence for different kinds of messages. Sentences are combinations of words that express complete thoughts. Sentences are basic building blocks of writing and communication; therefore, breaking our ideas into sentences is essential for clear communication.  In traditional grammar, the four basic types of sentence structures are the simple sentence, the compound sentence, the complex sentence, and the compound-complex sentence, whose identification by the non-native student teachers may be problematic. It’s crucial that English majors recognize word order and sentence types in English to improve their academic writing skills, and hence the identification of four types of sentences by English majors is a must. In this research 35 English majors with low intermediate background were given a pretest of 20 questions in terms of a multiple-choice test to measure their initial success at the beginning.  After 6 hours of intense sentence structure recognition studies, they were given the same pretest, after al elapse of 15 days, as the posttest to determine their final success on the discrimination of simple, compound, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences from each other. After the collection of data from pre-test and post-tests, the data were analyzed by SPSS 21. It was discovered that while pre-test’s was 23%, the mean score of the post-test came up to be 56 %, the percentage of ascent being % 23.

A longitudinal comparative study of the use of target language in the MFL classroom by native and non-native student teachers

ABSTRACTOne of the key topics on any Modern Languages Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course in the United Kingdom is the hotly debated issue of target language (TL) use. When and why do teachers use the TL in delivering lessons and when and why do they code switch into the learners' language? Does their practice change over time? Does it vary according to their learner experience? These are just some of the questions to have been explored in what is a much rehearsed debate. The issue is a challenging one for modern foreign language (MFL) course tutors, particularly in cases where practice in placement schools tends at times towards almost exclusive use of the first language. This paper begins with a closer look at the debate before presenting longitudinal research undertaken with four student teachers on a PGCE programme in 2012–2013. The research looked at attitudes and beliefs concerning participants' use of TL and also studied the functions for which they used TL most and least often. As the study was longitudinal, changes were noted. Differences between native speaker teachers and non-native speaker teachers were also observed throughout. The study, while not conclusive, yielded a number of interesting hypotheses which could form a valid basis for further larger scale research. They also have possible implications for the practice of teacher educators and for the delivery of MFL Initial Teacher Education programmes.

Examining Student Teachers’ Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: Insights from a Teacher Education Program in Turkey

Teachers’ beliefs about language learning and teaching are largely shaped during pre-service teacher education. Although many empirical studies have analyzed various dimensions of how student teachers’ beliefs and practices are formed, the literature is scarce with the research on student teacher’s beliefs about oral corrective feedback. For the field of English language teaching, student teachers’ beliefs about correcting erroneous utterances count for their future instructional choices. Thus, as an uncharted territory of inquiry, this issue merits a scholarly attention. To this end, the present study investigated the stated beliefs and behaviors of 98 nonnative student teachers via various qualitative tools; an interview and a simulation offering 20 classroom situations. The results showed that although most student teachers held a constructivist belief in defining teaching, their oral corrective feedback strategies varied in terms of correcting errors that relate to language proficiency, language components and task type.

Practicum Supervisors'Insights Regarding Non-Native Teachers in Training

This paper presents the results of a series of oral interviews with practicum supervisors in MA TESOL programs, regarding their views on the characteristics and the challenges experienced by nonnative teachers in training while they were doing their practice teaching. Practicum supervisors constitute a group of professionals with a unique and privialged perspective onto the classroom performance of both native and non-native student teachers and through these interviews they can express their concerns and appreciations of non-native students teachers in North-American TESOL Programs Keywords: practicum supervisor; non-native teachers, TESOL Programs

Feelings of Language Anxiety Amongst Non-native Student Teachers

As rewarding as it may be, the teaching profession also carries with it considerable challenges and responsibilities. The transition from student teacher to teacher is a formidable step for student teachers. As student teachers approach the end of their teacher education programs and they become aware of the responsibilities and expectations of the profession, it is reasonable they feel overwhelmed, question their abilities, and experience feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. Such feelings can potentially have adverse effects on student teachers’ target language use, pedagogical competence, and overall emotional well-being.

Non-native student teachers’ feelings of foreign language anxiety

This study investigates the feelings of foreign language anxiety of student teachers studying in a teacher education program in North Cyprus. The Turkish version of Horwitz's (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale and a set of open-ended questions were administered. The results indicate that different levels of anxiety were measured and also various anxious responses to open-ended questions obtained. In the light of these findings, there is a need to support future language teachers to eliminate, or at the very least to cope with, their foreign language anxiety prior to the start of their teaching career.