scholarly journals Nepalese EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of Pedagogical Capital: A Case Study

BELTA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-66
Author(s):  
Ganesh Kumar Bastola
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Classroom Data

This study explores the perceptions of pedagogical capital of English teachers in the context of Nepal. It aims to examine how the perceptions of pedagogical capital differ and how it affects teachers’ performance in the language classroom. Data for this research were collected from 3 participants with varied experiences. The data have been analyzed based on the framework of Stake (1995). The study uses Bourdieu's (1977) notion of cultural capital for theoretical insights. Findings indicate that teachers' pedagogic capital is an ability that can be used in the classroom to facilitate learning process.

scholarly journals The vocational English teachers� personal competence and its implication on teaching and learning process

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Mbarep Wicaksono ◽  
Ismail Petrus ◽  
Soni Mirizon
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Female Teacher ◽  
Personal Competence ◽  
Efl Context ◽  
Efl Teachers

Personal competence is one of the four main competencies that teachers in Indonesia must possess. However, the literature has been still limited on the teacher's personal competence in the EFL context. Therefore, the present study aims to discover the application of vocational English teachers� personal competence and its implication on the teaching and learning process. To achieve the purpose of this study, a qualitative approach in a form of case study was employed. Two teachers of English consisting of one male and one female teacher participated in this study and shared their stories about the application of their personal competence at the school. A semi-structured interview became the instrument to obtain the data. The findings of this investigation indicated that the personal competence of EFL teachers was revealed from teachers� obedience towards regulation, the application of their religious values, the way they treat their students, the honesty and model they demonstrated, the teachers� maturity, wiseness, and assertiveness, the teachers� work ethic, the teachers� confidence in carrying out their duties and the pride towards their profession. The study also discussed how the teachers� personal competence might affect the teaching and learning process.�

scholarly journals The Effective 21st-century Pedagogical Competence as Perceived by Pre-service English Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Renol Aprico Siregar
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Pedagogical Competence

As teaching is considered as a lifelong process, teachers should always intend to develop themselves to be able to effectively conduct the teaching and learning process. This study aimed at exploring the view of pre-service English teachers towards the effective 21st-century teachers’ pedagogical competence and how they develop their pedagogical competence for their future teaching. The data were obtained through interviews and questionnaires. The study was qualitatively conducted as a case study by involving 12 pre-service English teachers purposively chosen due to their familiarity with the study issue. The results indicated that in terms of 21st-century education, the participants perceived that the pedagogical competence focused on teachers’ capability of integrating the technology in classrooms and teachers’ ability to exploit adjusted methods and materials which furnish students with skills appropriate to their future real-life careers.  Further, there were eight very crucial traits of effective 21st-century pedagogical competence perceived by the participants. They were extended to; facilitating and inspiring students to learn creatively, utilizing, designin

scholarly journals Explorations of Beliefs about EFL Teachers’ Roles from Both Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives through Metaphor Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharihan Shawkat Azeez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

Metaphor acts as a window into comprehending teachers’ experiences through providing insights into complex concepts of teaching and learning. As a result, it plays a crucial role in exploring beliefs about teachers’ roles in the teaching and learning process. To elicit ideas and beliefs which both teachers and students held about the role of English teachers, questionnaires were given to 30 teachers and 85 students in the University of Duhok, English Department. The questionnaire asked the subjects to provide their beliefs about English teachers’ roles by using a sentence completion task “An English teacher is…. because….”. Eight conceptual categories are introduced from the linguistic metaphors and example metaphors for each category are given in the results tables. The eight conceptual categories include: teacher as devotee, teacher as nurturer, teachers as provider / source of knowledge, teacher as cultural transmitter, teacher as authority, teacher as guider, teacher as a friend, and teacher as a nice beautiful soul. All participants expressed the same conceptual categories, but still they use different metaphors to express their views. An interesting feature of these results is that there are some parallel and overlaps of metaphors among different subjects. The findings of this study suggested subtle differences between students’ and teachers’ beliefs. This study will benefit teachers, curriculum designers, and researchers. Researchers may carry out comprehensive studies using metaphor as an investigating tool to better understand both students and teachers’ perceptions of the teachers’ roles. The results will help develop comprehensive and inclusive methods of teaching. Larger samples with variables such as gender, age, different locations, and proficiency of participants should be taken into consideration during future studies.

scholarly journals Exploring Perception of EFL Teachers towards Use of Media in Teaching English

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Nany Soengkono Madayani ◽  
Muhassin Muhassin
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The City

This Research is against the backdrop of demand in mastering English. EFL teacher becomes one of the main important parts of teaching-learning English to handle a certain role in maximal the students’ achievement. The students’ achievement here means not only someone that has a lot of knowledge and high value but also someone that can give a positive contribution to other people. Because of that, the teachers have a big responsibility to facilitate students in learning. One of the facilitation of teaching-learning that has to be prepared by teachers is media. This study aims to investigate the teachers’ perceptions of ELT media. This study is classified into three main dimensions of perception proposed by Vernon (1987) namely understanding, outlook and action. By conducting a survey study, the researcher collected, analyzed, elaborated and eventually drew conclusions dealing with the teachers’ perceptions of ELT media. The main data of this study were collected with an interview and a questionnaire, which was distributed to 29 English teachers in the city of Tulungagung. The findings showed that Media is able to be a benefit for both teachers and students, be applicable to every class. To select criteria of Media is based on Media Mastery or flexibility due to different reference and less facility. Besides that, The teachers have positive responses towards the two of the dimensions, understanding, and view. The teachers, however, do not show positive responses toward the action. However, in general, the English teachers’ perceptions of ELT media in this study were categorized as a good perception. In other words, all the teachers have a positive perception of ELT media.   

scholarly journals Factors Contributing to Speaking Anxiety: A Case Study of Pre-Service English Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 412
Author(s):  
Afrianto Daud ◽  
Fakhri Ras ◽  
Novitri Novitri ◽  
Clara Putri Audia
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Speaking Anxiety ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Classroom

This study is aimed at finding out the level of speaking anxiety experienced by a group of pre-service English teachers at a university in Indonesia and investigating the factors contributing to their speaking anxiety. Using cluster random sampling, this mixed-method research took 30 pre-service English teachers from the same class as the research participants. The data were collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were adapted from FLCAS (Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale) designed by Horwitz et al (1986). The result of the questionnaire shows that the students’ speaking anxiety is overall in the mildly anxious level. It was identified that there were six students (20%) in the level of very anxious, seven students (23%) in the level of anxious, 14 students (47%) in the mildly anxious level, one student (3%) in the relaxed level, and two students (7%) in the very relaxed level. The interview data indicated that the anxiety was likely because of several inter-related factors: social, linguistic, and personal factors. The social factors include fear of making mistake, feeling under pressure dealing with people, afraid of negative evaluation by teachers, worrying of losing face; the linguistic factor relates to students’ lack of English ability (grammatical issues, proper pronunciation, and vocabulary). While from the personal factor deal with issues such as low motivation and and family problems.

scholarly journals EFL Teachers’ Perceptions on Supervision Program as a Tool to Develop Teachers’ Professionalism

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-152
Author(s):  
Tosriadi Tosriadi ◽  
Abdul Asib ◽  
Sri Marmanto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Students Success

Teachers hold a very crucial role in education. Students’ success in academic life is very much influenced by teachers’ quality. One of the ways applied by most schools in Indonesia to assure their teachers quality is by conducting supervision program at the end or in the middle of semester. This study investigated teachers’ perception on the effectiveness of supervision program in relation to their professional development. This qualitative case study involved 4 EFL teachers teaching at various school levels; elementary school, junior high school and senior high school. The data were collected through interview and document analysis. The result of data analysis revealed that teachers hold positive attitude toward supervision program in helping them develop their professionalism in teaching. Schools need to maintain supervision program to make sure their teachers are well prepared in performing their duty. The participating teachers suggested for its meaningfulness, supervision program should be well designed. Teachers being observed and supervisor should have the same educational background.

scholarly journals PRE-SERVICE EFL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND ACTUAL PRACTICES OF GIVING ORAL FEEDBACK IN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM: EXPLORATORY STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-313
Author(s):  
Atikah Wati ◽  
Indra Yoga Prawiro
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Department ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Oral Feedback ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Correct Form ◽  
Apprenticeship Program ◽  
Incorrect Information

The purposes of this study were to know the pre-service EFL teachers’ perceptions of their own oral feedback in apprenticeship program and to investigate the types of oral feedback that pre-service EFL teachers use in apprenticeship. It is supported by some problems found in the previous year apprenticeship program,  pre-service teachers were seldom to give feedback to their students’ work or performance during the teaching and learning process, those pre-service teachers seem to be afraid to give more information or explanation about students’ work, tell the students’ incorrect work and give the students the correct answer explicitly, correct the students pronunciation, restate the correct form of students’ utterances, etc. To achieve the purpose of study, the writer used qualitative research method. The research participants were be taken from English Department students of Wiralodra University Indramayu that applied for apprenticeship program, there were 20 students that experienced their apprentceship program in several schools in Indramayu. The instrument of the research were observation and questionnaire modified from Sultana (2015). The finding showed that pre-service teachers’ were aware by the important of oral feedback to correct students’ mistakes, clarify the incorrect information, correct the students’ pronunciation, and restate the correct form of students’ utterances. Unfortunately in the teaching and learning process many of pre-service teachers did not execute oral feedback when they have to. Most of the oral feedback given to the students were focused on mispronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Pre-service teachers seems did not notice misinformation mistakes and did not really aware of giving advice on students’ performance as the improvement strategy

AN ANALYSIS OF EFL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS RELATED TO THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS: A CASE STUDY AT A FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY IN TURKEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (14) ◽  
pp. 40-55
Author(s):  
Mehmet Salih YOĞUN
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Private University ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Administrative Roles ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Efl Teachers

Decision-making process requires school leaders and teachers to approach problems in a systematic way with more attention as a part of their academic and administrative roles, duties and responsibilities. In this respect, it is inevitable for them to consider the complex nature of decision-making procedures that is reshaped again and again due to the stakeholders various social, educational, cultural and psychological backgrounds. Bearing these points in mind, the purpose of the current study was to investigate the EFL teachers’ perceptions of decision-making process and identify the decision-making style they follow. Additionally, it aspired after searching whether gender and teaching experience effect the EFL teachers’ decision-making styles. A qualitative case study design was applied for the present study in accordance with its purpose. 6 EFL teachers (3 females and 3 male) working at the School of Foreign Languages in a private university took part in this study as participants. Collected data was analysed with Creswell’s (2012) inductive content analysis. The findings reached as a result of the study revealed that teachers’ perceptions of decision-making process were categorized under four headings. They were (1) the careful consideration of the situation, (2) involvement of all the parties, (3) reacting to an undesired situation, and (4) feeling responsible. It was also observed that while the men utilized rational decision-making style, the women preferred dependent decision-making style. Additionally, according to the findings, all of the participants stated that teaching experience had a positive correlation with decision-making process which means that the more experience teachers have, the more successful and effective decisions they take.

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