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A Narrative Research on Affordances for EFL Student Teachers’ Learning-to-Teach Beyond the Classroom
ZENG Zheng-ping
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2018.01.001
Leshan Normal University, Leshan, China
To become a qualified EFL (English as a Foreign Language) student teacher who can take an English teaching job in primary or high school after graduation, he or she must learn and use teacher knowledge inside and outside the classroom. Adopting a narrative research, this paper discusses eight excellent EFL student teachers’ perception of affordances for learning to teaching beyond the classroom based on the theories of affordance and niche. The results show that perceiving many affordances for learning to teach in their niches is of great significance for student teachers to improve their teaching competence. To make student teachers become qualified, we teacher trainers should not ignore the importance of learning-to-teach beyond the classroom.
student teacher education, learning-to-teach, affordance, niche, beyond the classroom
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