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Novice EFL teacher development.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

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Abstract

This paper is the summary and discussion of the findings from a questionnaire and interviews designed to find out what qualities a novice EFL teacher should have, both to offer recommendations to EFL teacher training programs and to provide guidelines for the self-development of novice EFL teachers. Our research is focused on what educational concepts, knowledge structure and ability structure a novice EFL teacher should have. For the implications, we believe our classification and descriptions about educational concepts, educational knowledge and educational abilities might be practical worldwide in pre-service and novice EFL teacher programmes. And we ...

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