Beliefs and expectations of student teachers' about their self and role as teacher during teaching practice course

The purposes of this study include exploring beliefs and expectations of student teachers' about their self and roles as teachers during Teaching Practice course. The aim of conducting this research is to contribute to filling the gap in the literature concerning the beliefs and expectations of student teachers of English and their relevance to their practice. With relation to 'self' and 'teaching roles' to compare them before and after the teaching practice. Secondly, the study aims to explore how these beliefs and expectations affect their performance during the teaching session. This study was conducted with senior students of theDepartment of English Language Teaching at a state university in Turkey during the 2009-2010 academic year. Data collection procedures include semi-structured in depth interviews with student teachers and classroom video-recordings of their teaching sessions. Analysis procedures include pattern-coding method suggested by Miles and Hubermann (1997) and the content analysis of the lesson transcriptions with comparison to the interviews. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu