Exploring EFL Teachers’ Perspectives of Professional Knowledge and Teaching Efficacy in Vocational High Schools

• Authors: Kate Tzu-Ching Chen , Sabina Chia-Li Chen

Abstracts

EN

The presented study was conducted to investigate vocational high school EFL teachers’ professional knowledge and teaching efficacy from teachers’ perspectives. Data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed by frequency distribution, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and stepwise regression. The results indicated that teachers have higher performance on professionalism and attitude to professional knowledge; teaching and class management in teaching efficacy. A significantly positive correlation was found between EFL teachers’ professional knowledge and teacher efficacy. Teachers reported that professional skills, professionalism, and attitude in professional knowledge were significant predictors of teaching efficacy. Professional knowledge helps to shape effective teaching.

Keywords

EN

vocational high school; EFL teachers; professional knowledge; teaching efficacy; Taiwan

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 34
• Pages: 270-279

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Kate Tzu-Ching Chen

• Chaoyang University of Technology

author

Sabina Chia-Li Chen

• Chaoyang University of Technology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.34.4.22

Biblioteka Nauki

16530438