An Evaluation of the preservice 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

EN

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

EN

evaluation; insiders’ perspective; BA English education programs; a university in China

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Pedagogy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 151-174

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-07-24

Contributors

author

Wang Ping

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jped-2015-0008