Micro-Teaching Technique: An Approach of Teaching Reading Skills to A2 Level Learners and Prospective Teachers’ Views of the Technique
Technique du Micro-Enseignement: Une Approche Pour Enseigner La Pratique de La Lecture aux Apprenants de Niveau A2 et La Perception de Cette Technique Par Les Futurs Enseignants

Author : Nurten ÖZÇELİK
Number of pages : 672-682

Abstract

This study is conducted to determine the difficulties that French prospective teachers encounter in implementing the technique of micro-teaching in the teaching of reading skills to A2 level learners in foreign language classes and so as to exhibit the positive and negative aspects of the technique based on prospective teachers’ views. The study group was composed of 20 undergraduate students (14 of whom were female and 6 of whom were male) attending the French Language Teaching Department of Gazi Faculty of Education of Gazi University and taking the course Special Teaching Methods II in the 2014-2015 academic year. The data collected by means of open-ended questions were evaluated through descriptive analysis by calculating frequencies. According to the findings obtained in this research, the participants encountered difficulties most in pronouncing French, then in controlling their excitement, in preparing a presentation, a pre-reading activity and the presentation file, respectively. Accordingly, raising self-reliance, learning to prepare a lesson plan, enabling to see the lacking sides are listed as the positive sides of the technique. Having a small number of students participating in lessons, the artificiality of the classroom environment, the pressure caused by being exposed to peer evaluation are the negative sides of the technique.

Keywords

Micro-teaching, reading skills, teaching/learning of French

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