%0 Journal Article
%T Moving From Theory to Practice: ELT Pre-service Teachers
%A £¿aziyeYaman
%A Meryem £¿zdemir
%J International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
%D 2012
%I Australian International Academic Centre PTY. LTD.
%R 10.7575/ijalel.v.1n.1p.27
%X This study was conducted to investigate the perceptual change in pre-service teachers¡¯ effective teacher beliefs throughout their education in English Language Teaching (ELT) Department of which programme is constructed spirally from theoretical knowledge to the practical one. Throughout a data collection procedure lasted 5 academic terms, 80 pre-service teachers were asked to write their ideas about ¡°the characteristics of an effective teacher¡±. In each time, as the pre-service teachers moved from theoretical courses to practical ones, the data obtained at each time was analyzed through content analysis and classified under 3 semantic groups; ¡°content knowledge, classroom behaviours, academic qualities¡±. Results showed that pre-service teachers¡¯ beliefs of effective teacher changed throughout their teacher education programme as theymoved from theory to practice.
%K Effective teacher beliefs
%K effective teacher
%K pre-service teachers¡¯beliefs
%U http://www.ijalel.org/pdf/45.pdf