Dávid Smid

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


Summary

In this work, I reported on my research project that targeted Hungarian pre-service English teachers’ motivation with an exploratory mixed-methods approach. In the qualitative research phase, first, I investigated 45 students’ past, present, and future (imagined) experiences pertaining to their pre-service English teacher identity, and thus, motivation, through their autobiographical narratives. Then, I explored eight university tutors’ perspectives of prospective English teachers’ motivation and the quality of the initial English teacher education in Hungary. Informed by my findings, I developed a questionnaire survey for the quantitative research phase. Based on a sample of 260 students, I was not only able to triangulate the findings of my qualitative studies on a larger sample, but also draw inferences about the population of Hungarian pre-service English teachers enrolled in year 1–5 of the undivided English teacher education program.

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

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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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