The Challenges of Mentoring Pre-service Teachers of English in Turkey

2009-01-01
Successful mentoring of TESOL teachers is a challenging job because it involves three parties (co-operating teachers, supervising teachers and student-teachers) and entails the successful interaction of each party with all the others. An additional, language-related challenge is faced by those being trained in a foreign or second language. The challenge is especially formidible in settings where the mentees have no direct contact with the target language.
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N. Gürbüz, “The Challenges of Mentoring Pre-service Teachers of English in Turkey,” The Teacher Trainer, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 20–22, 2009, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/92954.