Dávid Smid

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


The Instructors’ Perspective – An Inductive Approach: Findings and Discussion of Study 2

In this chapter, I present and discuss the findings of Study 2. The rationale behind this part of my research was to triangulate the findings of Study 1, which were based on the perspectives of Hungarian pre-service English teachers. As tutors form an integral part of the pre-service teacher education context, I assumed their perceptions of the target construct to be a crucial contributing factor to the overall quality of my project. More specifically, with the help of Study 2, I sought to achieve the following aims: (a) to explore Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ motivation from the perspectives of their instructors, and (b) to explore the instructors’ perspectives of the quality of pre-service English teacher education. To these ends, I obtained data from eight university tutors via semi-structured interviews. The data analytical procedures yielded five emerging themes and 11 categories (Table 10). Table 10 shows that I assigned a relatively large number of coded segments to each category, which is suggestive of the depth of the collected data. Moreover, as I shall demonstrate below, all categories represent multiple perspectives, which signifies the breadth of the data. As such, my sampling procedures can be considered successful in that the saturation of the obtained data was achieved (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). In what follows, I organize the presentation and the discussion of the findings according to the given products of the data analysis.

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.

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