Dávid Smid

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


Future Research Directions

A final point to emphasize is that pre-service English teachers’ motivation merits further investigation. Based on my research results, at least five potential avenues worthy of attention can be outlined. One is the earlier mentioned limitation, that is, to study pre-service English teachers’ motivational processes adopting a longitudinal approach. The data collected as part of the qualitative studies indicated that the two motivational constructs especially susceptible to fluctuations are students’ career intention and attitudes toward the learning situation. A study examining these variables along with students’ actual motivated behavior could not only further our understanding of the link between the target population’s choice motivation and executive motivation, but also generate additional pedagogical implications.

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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