This is a preliminary study to internationally investigate the nature of teachers ’ initial caree... more This is a preliminary study to internationally investigate the nature of teachers ’ initial career motivation. The study consists of three small-scale surveys, asking Japanese, Cambodian, and American groups of in-service English teachers why they chose to teach English. Teacher motivation is an area of study that has been long neglected and yet is in recent years beginning to be recognized as an important missing piece of information to understand the whole picture of what is going on in the classroom. The results show that the popular reasons why the Japanese teachers chose to teach English are: “I liked English”, “Easy for women to be and continue to be English teachers”, and “To support students”, while the Cambodian teachers preferred “I liked teaching”, “To contribute to society”, and “I liked English”. The American teachers chose such reasons as: “Other”, “To contribute to society”, and “I liked teaching ” and the “Other ” includes remarks such as “To travel abroad”, “To live...
This is a study to investigate the present situation of the English language and its education in... more This is a study to investigate the present situation of the English language and its education in Cambodia. The first half of the study consists of a review of current literature researching the present situation of Cambodia in transition, changes in the status of foreign languages, and the condition of English and its education in Cambodia. The second half of this study reports on the results of a small-scale survey recently undertaken in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The survey asked Cambodian teachers of English about their professional development (PD ) needs and their responses were compared with those of Japanese and Korean teachers of English. Cambodian teachers ’ preferred PD areas include Teaching Skills & Methods, Understanding Students, Attending Conferences, Seminars & Workshops, and Communication Skills. Not so many teachers were interested in Language Improvement, which is popular among Japanese and Korean teachers. These aspects are discussed by referring to qualitative data ...
This is a preliminary study to internationally investigate the nature of teachers ’ initial caree... more This is a preliminary study to internationally investigate the nature of teachers ’ initial career motivation. The study consists of three small-scale surveys, asking Japanese, Cambodian, and American groups of in-service English teachers why they chose to teach English. Teacher motivation is an area of study that has been long neglected and yet is in recent years beginning to be recognized as an important missing piece of information to understand the whole picture of what is going on in the classroom. The results show that the popular reasons why the Japanese teachers chose to teach English are: “I liked English”, “Easy for women to be and continue to be English teachers”, and “To support students”, while the Cambodian teachers preferred “I liked teaching”, “To contribute to society”, and “I liked English”. The American teachers chose such reasons as: “Other”, “To contribute to society”, and “I liked teaching ” and the “Other ” includes remarks such as “To travel abroad”, “To live...
This is a study to investigate the present situation of the English language and its education in... more This is a study to investigate the present situation of the English language and its education in Cambodia. The first half of the study consists of a review of current literature researching the present situation of Cambodia in transition, changes in the status of foreign languages, and the condition of English and its education in Cambodia. The second half of this study reports on the results of a small-scale survey recently undertaken in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The survey asked Cambodian teachers of English about their professional development (PD ) needs and their responses were compared with those of Japanese and Korean teachers of English. Cambodian teachers ’ preferred PD areas include Teaching Skills & Methods, Understanding Students, Attending Conferences, Seminars & Workshops, and Communication Skills. Not so many teachers were interested in Language Improvement, which is popular among Japanese and Korean teachers. These aspects are discussed by referring to qualitative data ...
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