Inside an english language teacher education program in Vietnam: students’ motivations for teaching and their intentions to teach
Recent years have witnessed a decrease in both the number and quality of students enrolling in English Language Teacher Education (ELTE) programs. Those ELTE graduates also tend to pursue careers other than teaching. Given the great demand for English language learning at the moment, such low mo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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H. : ĐHQGHN
2020
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| Online Access: | http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/89349 |
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| Institution: | Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Recent years have witnessed a decrease in both the number and quality of students enrolling in
English Language Teacher Education (ELTE) programs. Those ELTE graduates also tend to pursue careers other
than teaching. Given the great demand for English language learning at the moment, such low motivation for
teaching is undesirable. This study was thus conducted to investigate motivations for teaching of senior students
at a language teacher education institution in Vietnam as well as the correlations between these motivating factors
and their intentions to teach. Data was collected from 114 senior students using questionnaires, and analyzed
using SPSS (version 20.0). Findings from the study suggested that (a) participants displayed a positive prospect
of pursuing teaching career; (b) prior teaching and learning experience, making social contribution, and shaping
future of children/adolescentswere the most influential factors while fallback career, job transferability, and time
for familywere the least endorsed ones; (c) although teaching is perceived to be part of a respected profession
that requires expert knowledge and emotional devotion, teachers are generally underpaid; (d) significant relations
were observed between intrinsic career value, satisfaction with choice, social utility values, perceived ability,
and prior teaching and learning experienceand intentions to teach. |
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