{"title":"Student teachers’ expectations and their sense of fulfillment in a TESOL program","authors":"Y. Mori, Elke Stracke","doi":"10.1075/aral.19054.mor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.19054.mor","url":null,"abstract":"Student expectations have increasingly become a focus in Second Language Acquisition research. This study takes a\u0000 closer look at student teachers’ expectations in a Master of Arts TESOL program at an Australian university to investigate their\u0000 expectations and sense of fulfillment of these expectations. We employed a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design and\u0000 conducted a questionnaire (N = 31) and interviews (N = 6) with student teachers. The results\u0000 show that student teachers expect a well-balanced curriculum of theory and practice and consider teaching practice their top\u0000 priority. While the expectations of most TESOL student teachers are met, different language profiles can lead to different\u0000 expectations and potential conflict. Contrary to most previous research, this study showed that unmet expectations do not\u0000 necessarily lead to unfavorable outcomes because of the student teachers’ ability to adjust in various ways. The study concludes\u0000 with a discussion of implications for practice and future research.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48363132","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":"Korean Bibimbap mothers’ family language policies (FLPs) for their children’s bilingualism in\u0000 Australia","authors":"Eun Park, G. Vass, C. Davison","doi":"10.1075/aral.20001.par","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.20001.par","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The influential role of parents has long been acknowledged as a key contributor to children’s bilingual development.\u0000 Parents’ home-based informal efforts to foster children’s bilingual abilities are described as family language policies (FLPs). The\u0000 important connection between bilingualism and FLP has been established, but to date there are few studies concerning Korean immigrant\u0000 families in Australia, highlighting their unique cultural values. According to traditional Korean cultural values, mothers play a central\u0000 role as An-hae (the sun inside) to facilitate their children’s language development (Kim, 2006).\u0000 This study aimed to create a clearer picture of Korean mothers’ beliefs about bilingualism and their FLPs. The participants were six Korean\u0000 mothers with their children attending a community language program in Sydney. There are two data sets for this study: a six-weeks’ FLP daily\u0000 log of each family and a focus group interview. A thematic analysis of these data revealed the richness and specificity of FLPs for\u0000 bilingual development. This paper concludes with implications for a future research agenda.","PeriodicalId":43911,"journal":{"name":"Australian Review of Applied Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46982093","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}