What do Pre-service English Teachers Serve? A Critical Pedagogical Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorÖrdem, Eser
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:23:05Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:23:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.departmentAdana Alparslan Türkeş Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPre-service English teachers have been the object of many studies in the discipline of English languageteaching. However, what they have served has been rarely questioned and investigated. Critical pedagogy can help researchers interrogate why English has spread dramatically. An autoethnographicresearch method was used in this study to present the observations, experiences and beliefs of an insider’s perspective. I utilized the tenets of critical pedagogy to criticize the term pre-service. My mainquestion was what pre-service English teachers served. I problematized this term to open broader spacefor the deconstruction of neoliberal policies and criticizing the colonial minds. I believe that Englishlanguage teaching has been used as an indispensable part of neoliberal policies emanating from colonial minds of Anglo-America. Pre-service English teachers should be given the opportunity to criticizeEnglish-centric policies and to protect linguistic human rights. ELT departments can present pla tforms where pre-service itself can be resisted and opposed by the students. Aware of the colonial background, the ELT departments can radicalize student teachers through emancipatory and transformative curricula that prioritize linguistic human rights instead of English-centered linguicist practices.In addition, naming and labeling can be discussed in collaboration with ELT students instead of usingthe pre-service English teachers since serving may have negative connotations in relation to neoliberalism and neocolonialism.
dc.identifier.doi10.26466/opus.770219
dc.identifier.endpage534
dc.identifier.issn2528-9527
dc.identifier.issn2528-9535
dc.identifier.issue33
dc.identifier.startpage522
dc.identifier.trdizinid403880
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26466/opus.770219
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/403880
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/609
dc.identifier.volume17
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofOPUS Uluslararası Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectEğitim
dc.subjectEğitim Araştırmaları
dc.titleWhat do Pre-service English Teachers Serve? A Critical Pedagogical Perspective
dc.typeArticle

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