Pre-service Teachers Learning to Teach English as a Foreign Language to Preschool Learners in Macau: A Longitudinal Study.

English as a foreign language pre-primary education pre-service teachers preschool education teacher beliefs teacher education teacher learning

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 04 06 2021
accepted: 13 07 2021
entrez: 27 8 2021
pubmed: 28 8 2021
medline: 28 8 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Language teacher beliefs have received increasing research attention for the past few decades. However, little is known about the beliefs of pre-service teachers in the pre-primary English as a foreign language (EFL) education context. This qualitative case study extends this line of inquiry by investigating the trajectory of student teachers' beliefs about teaching English to pre-primary learners in Macau within a teacher education course. The participants included 60 pre-service teachers taking an

Identifiants

pubmed: 34447341
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.720660
pmc: PMC8382846
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

720660

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Reynolds, Liu, Ha, Zhang and Ding.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Références

Int J STEM Educ. 2018;5(1):34
pubmed: 30631724
Front Psychol. 2021 Jun 25;12:697160
pubmed: 34248800

Auteurs

Barry Lee Reynolds (BL)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao, China.
Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macao, China.

Sylvia Liu (S)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao, China.

Xuan Van Ha (XV)

Department of Foreign Languages, Ha Tinh University, Ha Tinh, Vietnam.

Xiaofang Zhang (X)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao, China.

Chen Ding (C)

Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Macao, China.

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