Designing a complementary e-mentoring program for pre-service ELT teachers: online co-mentoring project

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2023-01-01

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Kaçar, Işıl Günseli
Baltacı, Hasan Şerif

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In this qualitative study, we designed an online mentoring program to complement school-based mentoring to enrich the quality of existing mentoring experiences and explored the impact of this project on the professional development of 12 EFL pre-service teachers in an English-medium university in Turkey and six qualified English teachers. Pre-service teachers were assigned online co-mentors and asked to send them their lesson plans and teaching videos and several questions regarding their practicum, lesson plan preparation, delivery, assessment issues, as well as career-related concerns via e-mail to receive feedback. The data collected via semi-structured interviews before and after the project were analyzed through content analysis. The findings indicated a relatively high level of satisfaction among pre-service teachers regarding detailed feedback provision, the development of alternative viewpoints into teaching, enhanced teaching self-efficacy, reduced teaching anxiety, new insights into their career choices, and some challenges concerning the online nature of the study.

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coaching, e-mentoring, Mentoring, online teacher learning, pre-service teacher education, professional development

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102966

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article