An Assessment of Attitudes and Behaviors of Foreign Language Teachers  

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Papalia, Anthony

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 7 no. 2 (1973), page 231-236.
Fulltext: 07_02_Papalia.pdf (343.62KB)

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The aim of this study was to identify what foreign language teachers believe are true characteristics of students and to provide empirical evidence about teachers’ classroom behaviors a s they relate to the teaching-learning process. Nine secondary schools situated in urban and suburban communities participated in the study. All foreign language teachers of the participating schools and 1,046 of their randomly selected students were surveyed by means of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory and tlie Teacher Description Instrument. Teachers of foreign languages manifested, in varying degrees, supportive attitudes toward piipils. ?’hey favored st~itlents’s elf-motivation arid open interaction in tlie classroom, and they cautiously moved toward a student-centered concept ol instruction. Students, in identifying and rating their teachers’ classroom behaviors, confirmed that foreign language teachers displayed student-centered classroom behaviors and that they actualized learning by being sensitive to the needs and abilities of students.

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