Abstract

SUAREZ FLOREZ, Sergio Andrés  and  BASTO BASTO, Edwin Arley. Identifying Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs About Teaching EFL and Their Potential Changes. profile [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.2, pp.167-184. ISSN 1657-0790.  https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v19n2.59675.

This study aims at identifying pre-service teachers' beliefs about teaching English as a foreign language and tracking their potential changes throughout the teaching practicum. Participants were two pre-service teachers in their fifth year of their Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages program in a public university in Colombia. Data were gathered through a modified version of Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory before the practicum, eight weekly journal entries administered during ten weeks, and two semi-structured interviews at the end of the teaching practicum. The findings revealed that most of the pre-service teachers' beliefs changed once they faced the reality of the classroom

Keywords : Beliefs; English as a foreign language; pre-service teachers; teaching practicum.

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