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Construct Shift Of Pre-Service Language Teachers On Globalized English Within A Turkish Context, Yonca Özkan
Construct Shift Of Pre-Service Language Teachers On Globalized English Within A Turkish Context, Yonca Özkan
The Qualitative Report
The leading position of English as a global language has indisputably continued for several decades. This pivotal role has inevitably been influencing English language teaching and teacher education. The number of nonnative English speaking teachers has by far surpassed that of native English speaking teachers. This reality has led us to conduct this particular descriptive study involving Turkish senior pre-service language teachers acting as participants in a training as part of a course (Globalization in ELT), in which we investigated the participants’ perceptions towards globalized English regarding common themes in the journal and interview data. The findings revealed that although …