Designing a Questionnaire Attempting to Discover Mentors‟ Feedback in the Professionalism of the Foreign Language Teacher Candidate

Abstract

Teaching experiences are conducted in order to develop and sharpen the teacher candidates' abilities and skills in authentic teaching situations, they are also important collaborative processes between the teacher candidates and their mentors. Based on this situation, it is possible to state that the feedback given during the debriefing by mentors is one of the major constituents of these collaborating processes which apply elements of professionalism to the teacher candidates. The present study is an attempt to develop a scale/questionnaire familiar with the types of feedback that the teacher candidates receive from the cooperating school mentor teachers for their teaching experience performances. It is assumed that implementing such a scale can highlight mentor effectiveness because it is one of the preliminary means of investigating the teacher candidates' views of their mentors' assistance in their initial experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]