Shaping Professional Identity Through Professional Development: A Retrospective Study of TESOL Professionals
In an educational milieu student learning outcomes are directly related to teacher professional identity (TPI) i.e. improvement in the TPI will bear a direct positive effect on the learners’ academic achievements. Current study focuses on the development of TPI of English as a Foreign Language Teach...
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| author | Ahmad, Hussain Fatmawati, Latada Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab Shah, Sayyed Rashid Khan, Khushnoor |
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| description | In an educational milieu student learning outcomes are directly related to teacher professional identity (TPI) i.e. improvement in the TPI will bear a direct positive effect on the learners’ academic achievements. Current study focuses on the development of TPI of English as a Foreign Language Teacher at English Language Institute (ELI) of a Saudi Arabian university through an in-service Cambridge English Teachers (CET) Professional Development (PD) program (CET-PD). Five determinants of TPI - Knowledge of Teaching Context (KCT), Collegial Collaboration (CC), Teaching Practices (TPs), Teacher Self-Efficacy (TSE), and Teacher Agency (TA) were studied before and after the PD program. Retrospective pretest-posttest research design was employed for addressing the research question: whereas responses on the five determinants were elicited from 120 participants through a self-administered questionnaire before and after the CET-PD program. Due to non-normality of data, a non-parametric statistic test-Wilcoxon signed Rank test was employed to analyze the collected data using SPSS. Results of the study revealed that three determinants of TPI - KCT, TSE, and TPs exhibited larger differences; whereas, for CC the differences were moderate and for TA the differences were minimal. By and large, due to in-service CET- PD program TPI exhibited improvement. The results of the study will be beneficial for teacher trainers to focus more on the teachers’ awareness of the learners’ and institutional contextual knowledge in a culture embedded in conservative norms. This study is a part of the quantitative phase of an ongoing Ph.D. project which employs mixed method convergent design. |
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| spelling | UMPir258642020-08-06T02:28:11Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25864/ Shaping Professional Identity Through Professional Development: A Retrospective Study of TESOL Professionals Ahmad, Hussain Fatmawati, Latada Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab Shah, Sayyed Rashid Khan, Khushnoor LB2300 Higher Education In an educational milieu student learning outcomes are directly related to teacher professional identity (TPI) i.e. improvement in the TPI will bear a direct positive effect on the learners’ academic achievements. Current study focuses on the development of TPI of English as a Foreign Language Teacher at English Language Institute (ELI) of a Saudi Arabian university through an in-service Cambridge English Teachers (CET) Professional Development (PD) program (CET-PD). Five determinants of TPI - Knowledge of Teaching Context (KCT), Collegial Collaboration (CC), Teaching Practices (TPs), Teacher Self-Efficacy (TSE), and Teacher Agency (TA) were studied before and after the PD program. Retrospective pretest-posttest research design was employed for addressing the research question: whereas responses on the five determinants were elicited from 120 participants through a self-administered questionnaire before and after the CET-PD program. Due to non-normality of data, a non-parametric statistic test-Wilcoxon signed Rank test was employed to analyze the collected data using SPSS. Results of the study revealed that three determinants of TPI - KCT, TSE, and TPs exhibited larger differences; whereas, for CC the differences were moderate and for TA the differences were minimal. By and large, due to in-service CET- PD program TPI exhibited improvement. The results of the study will be beneficial for teacher trainers to focus more on the teachers’ awareness of the learners’ and institutional contextual knowledge in a culture embedded in conservative norms. This study is a part of the quantitative phase of an ongoing Ph.D. project which employs mixed method convergent design. Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) 2018-07-28 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25864/2/Shaping%20Professional%20Identity%20Through%20Professional%20Development.pdf Ahmad, Hussain and Fatmawati, Latada and Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab and Shah, Sayyed Rashid and Khan, Khushnoor (2018) Shaping Professional Identity Through Professional Development: A Retrospective Study of TESOL Professionals. International Journal of English Linguistics, 8 (6). pp. 37-51. ISSN 1923-869X. (Published) https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p37 https://doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p37 |
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