International field experience: What do student teachers learn?

International field experience: What do student teachers learn?

• Lee, Jackie Fung King Hong Kong Institute of Education

Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 36(10), 1-22, 2011

School of Education, Edith Cowan University

2011

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MF Characteristics & Conditions of Educational Workers

Cutural Awareness English (Second Language) Experiential Learning Foreign Countries Immersion Programs Language Teachers Teaching Experience Program Evaluation

• Hong Kong
• New Zealand

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

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This inquiry aimed to examine the benefits of having international field experience for a group of Hong Kong postgraduate student teachers who joined a six-week immersion program in New Zealand. Through participants' reflections, interviews and program evaluations, the present investigation found that the overseas field experience not only enriched their cultural understanding, pedagogical knowledge and skills, but also enhanced their language awareness, classroom language and recognition of different English varieties.
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Refereed article

• English

Journal Articles

• 03135373

• 10.14221/ajte.2011v36n10.4

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/11ef4452

2014-06-24