{"title":"Building visions and expectations in language teacher education: a study of Hungarian and Turkish pre-service EFL teachers","authors":"K. Farkas","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.5","url":null,"abstract":"As a contribution to a growing body of research on the theory and practice of reflective teaching in language teacher education, this study examines the results of a structured reflective activity in which Hungarian (n=30) and Turkish (n=17) pre-service EFL teachers were asked to express not only beliefs and knowledge derived from their past experiences (Borg, 2003, 2006), but also their visions and expectations regarding their future selves in the profession (Dörnyei & Kubanyiova, 2014). The recognition that teaching-related visions and expectations should also be addressed in teacher education programmes has only gained momentum in recent years, inspired by major developments in motivation research (Section 2.2) and by some pioneering studies conducted in Finland (e.g., Kalaja, 2015; Kalaja & Mäntylä, 2018). In addition to these origins, further reasons for the exploration of teaching-related visions and expectations were put forward by Lampert, Burnett, and Davie (2012), who suggested that the mismatches between pre-service EFL teachers’ expectations and job realities are one of the main causes for early teacher attrition and burnout in this profession, and by Peacock (2001), who demonstrated the tendency of pre-service EFL teachers to hold beliefs that are inhibitory to teacher motivation and professional growth (see also Moore, 2004). Whereas these claims are also supported by the results of this study, the exploration of teaching-related visions and expectations will be presented as an activity through which pre-service EFL teachers’ existing knowledge and dispositions can be externalised and potentially reconceptualised as part of their professional coursework (Johnson, 2009, 2015) in local or even cross-cultural communities of practice (Kumaravadivelu, 2012).","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"39 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131262279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivation in modern language studies: a pilot study in Italian language","authors":"Sandra Mardešić, Ana Gverović, Ana Puljizević","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.8","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of research on learners’ individual differences (ID), the affective domain, motivation in particular, has been thoroughly examined (Dörnyei and Ryan, 2015). The interest in motivation in SLA dates back to the early 1950s and has since been a very prolific area of research. Recently, in the period between 2005 and 2015, over a hundred publications on motivation in SLA were published, in which a number of various constructs and factors have arisen, confirming that the motivation is a dynamic and complex process (Dörnyei & Ryan, 2015). As a result, a large number of definitions of L2 learning motivation have been employed: from Gardner’s (1985, p. 10) “the extent to which the individual works or strives to learn the language because of a desire to do so and the satisfaction experienced in this activity” to a broader definition by Medved Krajnović: “a set of motives, i.e. of psychological states that move and direct human behaviour and determine its intensity” (2010, p. 77). In this pilot study we shall use the latter definition.","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130977330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change in feedback practices and its effect on students’ essay-writing skills - an action research","authors":"I. Cindrić, Mirta Kos Kolobarić","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117236973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The application of objective measures of text difficulty to language examinations","authors":"G. Szabó","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125547429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilingualism in English language classrooms in Croatia: can we think outside the box?","authors":"M. Trinki, Stela Letica Krevelj","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131188672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the nature of relationship between self-regulation and lexical competence","authors":"Sanja Marinov, Višnja Pavičić Takač","doi":"10.17234/UZRT.2018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17234/UZRT.2018.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223223,"journal":{"name":"UZRT 2018: Empirical studies in applied linguistics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131152478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}