PROSPECTIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TO TEACHING AS A CAREER IN TURKEY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS
Journal Title: Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (BAED) - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 8
Abstract
Career choice factors refer to those characteristics people look for in a job. While assumptions existabout how to make the teaching profession more attractive to the individuals, knowledge about the factors that might encourage students interested in these fields to consider teaching as a career is limited. Individuals’ decision to go into teaching or not is believed to be influenced by what they value in a job and their perceptions of teaching. If we are able to identify those factors which individuals consider important in their choice of career, and highlight the factors in teaching which match these, then we might hope to persuade better qualified students to consider teaching. This study explored first –year pre‑service English language teachers’ views of teaching as a career choice. They were asked to rate the importance of factors in influencing their choice of career, and then the extent to which they thought teaching as a career offers these factors, using a questionnaire survey.
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Gülşah Külekçi
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