TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Effect of the EPOSTL on the Self-evaluation of Student Teachers of English
AB  - The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the EPOSTL (European Portfolio forStudent Teachers of Languages) on the self-evaluation of student teachers of English at Akhmet YassawiInternational Kazakh-Turkish University in Kazakhstan. The study, which employed a mixed-methodssequential explanatory research design, was conducted at Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-TurkishUniversity Faculty of Philology in Turkistan, Kazakhstan in the 2017-2018 academic year. 71 fourth yearELT student teachers participated in the study. The participants were divided into control andexperimental groups. Only pretest and posttest were conducted to control group participants; however,pretest and posttests, the EPOSTL Use 1 and 2 were conducted to the experimental group participants.Multiple sets of data came from a) questionnaire, b) peer observation, c) reflective journal, and d)interview. The quantitative data were analyzed descriptively using IBM SPSS 21. The qualitative datacollected from the peer observation, reflective journal, and interview was analyzed through qualitativethematic analysis. The results, overall, showed that the effect of the EPOSTL on the self- evaluation of thestudent teachers of English provided positive results. The findings demonstrate that the majority of theparticipants agree that the EPOSTL advances self-reflection and self-assessment, since it assists inchecking the improvement of their didactic knowledge, teaching competences and skills. Thecomprehensive and clear structure of the EPOSTL found to be the main advantage of it. As the studentteachers are not practical in teaching and require guidance through the complexity of language teaching,the EPOSTL enables them to match the theoretical knowledge with practical skills.
AU  - MIRICI, İsmail Hakkı
AU  - SEİTOVA, Meruyert
AU  - Oz, Huseyin
DO  - 10.17051/ilkonline.2019.612580
PY  - 2019
JO  - İlköğretim Online (elektronik)
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
SN  - 1305-3515
SP  - 1367
EP  - 1377
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/331752
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