An Unknown Marriage in Pre-Service Teachers: Beliefs and Their Practices.

Abstract

This research explored pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and the relationship that they can do with their teaching practices during the development of the same in the English Bachelor Program at Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios. It is worth to emphasize that this qualitative research with a narrative focus used autobiographical narratives as an instrument of analysis, which four pre-service teachers carried out before and during their teaching practice. Through this instrument, the data supported the three main categories established, being these teacher`s roles, methods, approaches, strategies and materials for English Language Teaching. As results of this research, it was found pre-service teachers’ articulated some of their beliefs related to the teacher’s role in the classroom with their teaching practicum. On the other hand, pre-service teachers changed other beliefs related to the methods, approaches or strategies to teach English language, it due to context where they developed their teaching practicum number one. Finally, the participants remarked their beliefs related to resources and materials to teach English Language during their teaching practicum number one.