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Stifled Teacher Efficacy: A Threat to Post-Method Pedagogy Implementation

Stifled Teacher Efficacy: A Threat to Post-Method Pedagogy Implementation
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Author(s): Ardene Virtue (Church Teachers' College, Jamaica)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 31
Source title: English Language Teaching in a Post-Method Paradigm
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Paulette Joyce Feraria (The University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9228-0.ch014

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Abstract

The chapter proposes that the honing of teacher efficacy is a necessary prerequisite for the implementation of post-method pedagogy (PMP). The application of PMP requires an autonomous practitioner who undertakes an experimental approach to teaching English as a second language. Hence, it is justifiable that teachers would need a high self-assurance in their capabilities to make comprehensive judgments regarding their selection, and effectual employment of teaching practices. The chapter examines how teacher agency is negated by three factors – practitioners' operation as passive implementers of dicta, a product-focussed school context that discourages teachers' self-directed instructional approaches, and teachers' overreliance on teaching resources such as the textbook. Finally, the chapter provides PMP criteria for teachers' effective engagement of textbooks which practitioners could competently apply providing they have achieved their efficacies.

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