INTERVENTIONS IN THE EGYPTIAN INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Main Author: Mona Ahmed Eid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Montenegro 2017-01-01
• Series: Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text
• Subjects: teacher’s education; teachers evaluation; active learning; learning theories; differentiation; MALL (mobile-assisted language learning)
• Online Access: http://www.ll.ac.me/ll%203(2)/Mona%20150-175.pdf

This research paper diagnostically measures the teaching proficiency level of ten interns, teaching English as a foreign language at Zahran Secondary School (Alexandria, Egypt), in order to identify their competencies, as well as their weaknesses. It also develops a six-session workshop to upgrade the teaching skills of the ten interns, focusing primarily on the six teaching skills the interns found most challenging. At the same time, the six-session workshop aims at providing the interns with the overview of the most recent and up-to-date pedagogical and methodological trends, which are not taught as part of their undergraduate courses. The results of the evaluation procedures and the 6-session workshop indicate that the interns’ overall teaching proficiency increased at a rate of 19.22 after the workshop. Consequently, we recommend that undergraduate studies be supplemented with such internship workshops so as to overcome the issues interns often encounter. Additionally, the Egyptian internship programme, in other governorates in Egypt, should be modified so as to include similar workshop sessions, which should enhance the teaching skills of the interns and provide solutions for their teaching impediments.