Dávid Smid

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


Perceptions of Pre-Service English Teachers’ Competences

Another salient theme emerging from the collected data concerned the instructors’ perceptions of pre-service English teachers’ competences. This stands for students’ knowledge and skills to use and teach the English language effectively, which the instructors inferred on the basis of their students’ class achievements. Such a conceptualization of competence corresponds to the one promoted by the Council of Europe (2001). As can be seen, this theme is different from the previous one in that the current one involves the product of students’ engagement or effort investment in various activities. As mentioned earlier in Chapter 3, the objectives students should achieve in the given competence domains by their graduation are regulated by the Decree no. 8/2013. (I.30.) (2013). The interviewees’ reports were largely uniform when it came to their perceptions of the competences of pre-service English teachers present in their context. This meant that, overall, all instructors but one were overwhelmingly critical of students.

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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