Linguistic differences in pre-service and in-service teachers’ online reflections and the implications
Abstract:
Reflections can make considerable contributions to teachers’ professional development. They can also reflect teachers’ inner thoughts and professional skills. In this study, we collected 261 in-service primary teachers’ reflections in a teacher training activity about the application of information technology in teaching. And we also collected 141 pre-service teachers’ online reflections in a course named “modern educational technology”. These text reflections are analyzed by a linguistic inquiry and word count tool named to get the linguistic features. Then a comparative research was done between pre-service and in-service teachers’ reflections. The results show that: 1. There are significant linguistic differences between pre-service and in-service teachers’ reflections. 2. Pre-service teachers tend to use more first-person pronouns, achievement words and emotional words. They also have more words per sentence and wordcount in their reflections. 3. These differences could be helpful in teacher training.
Keywords:
Linguistic analysis, online reflections, in-service teachers, pre-service teachers
pages:
379-382
Year:
2019
Published in:
2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019
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