Dávid Smid

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary


Study 3

4.2.3.1 Participants The target population of Study 3 was the same as that of Study 1. My sampling procedure was mostly based on practical considerations. First, I aimed to recruit respondents who were available and willing to take part in my research. While the adoption of convenience sampling, a non-probabilistic sampling strategy in quantitative research, meant a threat to the representativeness of the final sample, and thus, the generalizability of the results, it is regarded as the most commonly selected method within the educational sciences (Muijs, 2004) and AL (Dörnyei, 2007) given that researchers must adhere to ethical standards (BERA, 2018). Second, I aimed to have a large enough sample (i.e., min. 100 people) because it was less likely to contain extreme cases distorting the overall results (Muijs, 2004), and it could also satisfy the sample size condition for the application of various statistical analyses (Dörnyei, 2007).

Toward an Understanding of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Motivation: The Case of Hungary

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2022

ISBN: 978 963 454 818 8

In this monograph, the findings of a mixed-methods, multi-perspective empirical study targeting the motivation of Hungarian pre-service English teachers are presented and discussed. When it comes to the Hungarian context, the importance of the topic is indicated by issues, such as the ongoing workforce shortage in the public education sector and the latest reforming of the initial teacher education system. The present investigation sheds light on the complexity of Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ motivation, which was found to be a bipartite construct interrelated with cognitive, emotional, and social processes. It also offers insights into the motivating capacity of the undivided pre-service English teacher education program as well as the extent to which the initial teacher education system is effective with respect to its student recruitment policy. As such, this monograph might be beneficial to researchers, university instructors, mentor teachers, and educational policymakers alike.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/smid-toward-an-understanding-of-pre-service-english-teachers-motivation-the-case-of-hungary//

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