Do Online Courses Change Teachers' Beliefs? A Study of Omani Teacher-Trainees' Beliefs in Second Language Acquisition

Autor/in	Pitychoutis, Konstantinos M.
Titel	Do Online Courses Change Teachers' Beliefs? A Study of Omani Teacher-Trainees' Beliefs in Second Language Acquisition
Quelle	In: MEXTESOL Journal, 47 (2023) 2, (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pitychoutis, Konstantinos M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Online Courses; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Preservice Teachers; Student Attitudes; Teacher Education Programs; Teaching Methods; Rural Areas; Learning Theories; Language Planning; Error Correction; Attitude Change; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; In Person Learning; Classroom Techniques; Oman + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Online course; Online-Kurs; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Sprachwechsel; Korrektur; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Klassenführung
Abstract	Teachers' beliefs on language learning play a pivotal role in teachers' classroom practices and are thought to be stable. This article aims to show the change in the teacher-trainees' beliefs after taking an online second language acquisition (SLA) course as opposed to the traditional face-to-face SLA course from previous studies. The participants are sixteen teacher-trainees from a rural university in Oman. All participants attended a 16-week online SLA course. The data was captured by juxtaposing pre-course and post-course questionnaires. The results show that teachers' beliefs on language learning theories, language policies, and classroom practices present a change, whereas teachers' beliefs on error correction are resistant to change. Furthermore, teacher-trainees with some teaching experience reported dramatic changes in their beliefs regarding classroom practices. This study provides preliminary evidence that semester-long online courses may affect teachers' beliefs. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01