Detail Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Use of Technology in Teaching Practicum (abstract only)   Oleh:  Merc, Ali Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 424. Topik: technology; teaching Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 67.pdf (285.58KB) Isi artikel Practice teaching is one of the most prominent features of foreign language teacher education. Within the experience of practice teaching, student teachers are provided with the chances to deliver lessons in real schools in their final years of study. Technology, on the other hand, is an inevitable component of classroom teaching. However, whether teacher candidates are able to benefit from technology is a big question mark. Considering the importance of the use of technology in foreign language classrooms, this study aims to find out what is ‘use of technology in foreign language classrooms’ for the preservice EFL teachers. In specific, it aims to investigate the quantity and quality of student teachers’ use of technology in their classrooms during practice teaching experience. For this reason, a questionnaire that measures the frequency of the use of technology and whether student teachers found each experience useful was developed. The questionnaire has two parts. In the first part, students’ demographic information is questioned. The second part consists of 11 items: eight Liker-type items and three open-ended questions. 86 student teachers completing their teaching practicum at Anadolu University English Language Teacher Training program agreed to answer the questionnaire. It took less than 15 minutes for the participants to complete the questionnaire. For the purpose of data triangulation, semi-structured interviews were also run to support the questionnaire results. The quantitative analysis will try to present demographic information about the participant student teachers (gender, age, type of practicum school) and what sort of technological aids (OHP, projector & computer, smart board, radio/cassette/CD player, etc.) they used during their practicum experiences. Furthermore, analysis will document students’ views about the use of technology in the foreign language classrooms in the following aspects: what technological devices practicum schools possess, quantity of use of these devices during practicum, cooperating teachers’ use of technological devices, their level of self-satisfaction related to their use of technology. Student teachers’ ideas about the training they had taken on the use of technological devices for language teaching throughout their university education and usefulness of the use of those devices will be identified. Student teachers’ suggestions for the program they study and the practicum schools will also be presented following the analyses of the open-ended questions. The findings of the study are discussed along the recent literature on practice teaching, foreign language teacher education, and use of technology in foreign language classrooms. Certain implications for teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators are provided while some suggestions are given for further research studies on similar issues. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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