Pre-Service Foreign Language Teachers’ Awareness of White Privilege

Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions of Learning a Foreign Language Online: Preparing Teachers to Work with Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Diversity

Due to the continuing linguistic and cultural diversity among K-12 students in the US and across the Englishspeaking world and the increasing influence of digital technologies on learning, this qualitative study explores pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning a foreign language online, and how such experience influence teaching linguistically, culturally, and technologically diverse stud...

On the Iranian In-service and Pre-service Language Teachers’ Perceptions of Educational Supervision Concerning their Professional Development

Teacher supervision plays a pivotal role in the improvement of education system and the way in which teachers and student teachers perceive it. Consequently language teacher supervisors can utilize appropriate supervisory models to keep teachers update and promote them professionally. The present study investigated the role of language teacher supervisors in student teachers and in-service teac...

Pre-service Language Teachers’ Cognitions about Language Learning/teaching and Cognition Refinements through a Reflection-oriented Practicum

Pre-service teacher cognition literature abounds with the concept of change as well as proposals regarding desirable conceptual changes to be undertaken so that teacher candidates can set out their path of professional development with right beliefs. Yet, such changes would seem less likely to occur if the trainees’ thoughts, beliefs, and cognitions are not identified in the f...

The Evolution of Teachers’ Language Awareness

Narrative journal experience of pre-service teachers in Practicum course

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine eight teacher students’ experiences in using the reflective narrative journal in the process of their Practicum.  Specifically, this study focused on capturing the essence of the experiences related to reactions, feelings and thoughts about the reflective narrative journal entries in Practicum process. Qualitative analysis revealed that ...