Nketsia William, Carroll Kay
School of Education, Western Sydney University, Building K. Room 2.28, Kingswood Campus, Second Ave, Kingswood NSW, 2747, Sydney, Australia.
Heliyon. 2023 Jul 17;9(7):e18370. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18370. eCollection 2023 Jul.
The growing call among the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to recruit, retrain, and recertify foreign and migrant teachers in order to diversify the teaching force to reflect the increasingly diverse student population justifies the need to explore the experiences of foreign language teachers during their first teaching practicum in Australian mainstream classrooms. Semi-structured interviews were held with six foreign language pre-service teachers pursuing the Master of Teaching (Secondary) programme. The purpose was to explore their teaching experiences, concerns prior to the first teaching practicum in Australian mainstream classrooms, and how they dealt with the challenges encountered. The findings indicate that although teaching a foreign language in community language schools provided the teachers with some practical teaching skills, values, and opportunities to practice the knowledge and theories acquired in their master's programme, they all had concerns before the teaching practicum and encountered some challenges while undertaking it. The study discusses the challenges that the participants encountered and how they addressed them. In addition, it highlights the need for universities to design retraining programmes that address the unique concerns of foreign language teachers and equip them with the requisite knowledge and skills to enable them to become effective teachers in their new context.
经济合作与发展组织（OECD）成员国越来越多地呼吁招聘、再培训外国教师和移民教师，并为他们重新颁发资格证书，以使教师队伍多样化，以反映日益多样化的学生群体。这证明有必要探索外语教师在澳大利亚主流课堂首次教学实习期间的经历。研究人员对六名攻读中学教学硕士课程的外语职前教师进行了半结构化访谈。目的是探讨他们的教学经历、在澳大利亚主流课堂首次教学实习前的担忧，以及他们如何应对所遇到的挑战。研究结果表明，尽管在社区语言学校教授外语为教师提供了一些实践教学技能、价值观，以及运用在硕士课程中学到的知识和理论的机会，但他们在教学实习前都有所担忧，并且在实习过程中遇到了一些挑战。该研究讨论了参与者遇到的挑战以及他们是如何应对的。此外，它强调大学需要设计再培训计划，以解决外语教师的独特担忧，并使他们具备必要的知识和技能，使他们能够在新环境中成为有效的教师。
