EVALUATION OF THE PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION IN A UNIVERSITY IN CHINA: PROS AND CONS FROM AN INSIDER’S JOURNEY OF LEARNING

• Authors: Wang Ping
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The theme of the paper is to reveal how well-prepared pre-service teachers think they are. It aims at reviewing the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 cohorts studying for a BA in TEFL at a university by examining the impact and the effectiveness of four-year pre-service English education in a Chinese university context, and what needs to be improved and maintained from the perspective of trainees. Questionnaires were used, followed by semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were completed by 300 participants, 200 of whom were then randomly chosen as interviewees. Despite finding some inconsistency in the four-year BA TEFL program, the result obtained from investigation of the cohort of student teachers is still satisfying.

Keywords

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EVALUATION; ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAMS; UNIVERSITY; CHINA

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 151 – 174

Contributors

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Wang Ping

• Jiaxing University, College of Foreign Languages, 56 Yuexiu Road (South), Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, 314001, China