Chinese English major students and the apprenticeship of observation: The influence of previous student experiences on current beliefs about English language teaching
2016 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Kinesiska engelskstuderande universitetsstudenter och observationens lärlingskap : Tidigare eleverfarenheters påverkan på nuvarande åsikter om engelskundervisning (Swedish)
Abstract [en]
“The apprenticeship of observation” is a person’s previous experiences as a student and it can greatly affect a person’s beliefs about teaching. This paper aimed to study the effect that previous student experiences had had on English major students at a university in China. A questionnaire was designed in order to collect data. The questionnaire was distributed to 117 undergraduate English majors. The results showed that the English majors considered their previous experiences as students to have greatly affected their current beliefs about English language teaching. The results further showed that the effects had mainly been positive and that the English major students considered “methods for English teaching”, “content”, and “lesson planning” to be the areas that had been affected most. These results were in accordance with most previous studies on the topic.
Abstract [sv]
“Observationens lärlingskap” (min översättning) är en persons tidigare erfarenheter som elev och dessa kan starkt påverka en persons uppfattning om undervisning. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilken effekt tidigare eleverfarenheter hade haft på engelskstuderande studenter vid ett universitet i Kina. Ett frågeformulär utformades för att samla in underlag. Frågeformuläret delades ut till 117 engelskstudenter. Resultatet visade att engelskstudenterna ansåg att deras tidigare eleverfarenheter starkt hade påverkat deras nuvarande åsikter om engelskundervisning. Vidare visade resultatet att effekten mestadels var positiv och att engelskstudenterna ansåg att “metoder för engelskundervisning”, “innehåll” och “lektionsplanering” var de områden som hade blivit mest påverkade. Dessa resultat stämde med tidigare studier inom området.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2016. , p. 33
Keywords [en]
the apprenticeship of observation, previous student experiences, beliefs about teaching, prospective teacher’s beliefs
Keywords [sv]
observationens lärlingskap, tidigare eleverfarenheter, åsikter om undervisning, blivande lärares uppfattningar
National Category
Humanities
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47899OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-47899DiVA, id: diva2:1073211
Subject / course
English
Educational program
Secondary Education Programme: Upper-Secondary School: History (300 ECTS credits)
Supervisors
Examiners
2017-02-102017-02-092017-02-10Bibliographically approved