UTILIZING THE EPOSTL FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION PROCESS: NEEDS AND GAINS

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Ayfer Su Bergil
Amasya University, Turkey
Arif Saricoban
Selçuk University, Turkey

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The review of literature clarifies that teacher education starting from the faculty as a pre-service process needs refreshment in making revisions of its boundaries, competences and classifications as providing gains for the whole system. Thus, this study provides a sample for other subject fields of teacher education since it aims to show how a new generation tool named as European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) can be used to define the needs of prospective English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and foster the teacher education system with its gains. The sample of the study consists of 4th grade prospective EFL teachers studying at Hacettepe University, Department of ELT (N=38). For data collection, the adapted 5 point likert-type scale version of EPOSTL was applied to the participants. In the data analysis process in addition to the calculations of frequencies and percentages, some parametric statistics were used. The findings of the study reveal that EPOSTL can be a new tool for describing the competences of both prospective and in-service EFL teachers which could be inspiring for other teacher education programs as well.  

Keywords: Teacher education, EFL teacher competences, EPOSTL

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Author Biographies

Ayfer Su Bergil, Amasya University, Turkey

Ayfer SU BERGİL is an assistant professor doctor at Amasya University, Department of ELT. She received her PhD from Hacettepe University, MA from Gaziosmanpaşa University, BA from Gazi University. Methodologies of ELT, curriculum design, teacher education and development are among the fields of her interest.

 

Arif Saricoban, Selçuk University, Turkey

Arif Sarıçoban is a professor doctor at Selçuk University, Konya. He received his PhD from Çukurova University, MA from Bilkent University, BA from Ondokuz Mayıs University. He has publications in both national and international indexed journals on various topics of language and linguistic studies.

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