The development and application of an instrument for assessing college students perceptions of business English teachers pedagogical content knowledge

JIANG Xia & WANG Xuemei

Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2020, Vol. 169 ›› Issue (1) : 9.

Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice ›› 2020, Vol. 169 ›› Issue (1) : 9.

The development and application of an instrument for assessing college students perceptions of business English teachers pedagogical content knowledge

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Based on previous researches as well as the characteristics of Business English Major, the authors designed an instrument for assessing college students’ perceptions of business English teachers pedagogical content knowledge. The procedures are as follows:1) Constructing five dimensions of the instrument based on previous researches as well as the characteristics of businessEnglishmajor;2) Compiling 32 descriptive items for all dimensions according to the results of in depth interview with studentsandteachersaswellasconceptmapsfromstudents;3) Revising the content in accordance with suggestions from teacher educationexperts;4) Conducting a pilot study and revising the items accordingly; 5)Conducting the pilot study again. Results of analysisindicatedthatthisinstrumentshowedpromisingvalidityandreliabilityandcouldmeasurethelevelofPCKappropriately. Five dimensions finally constructed in this study were Knowledge of Educational Context and Teaching Objectives, Subject Matter Knowledge, Knowledge of Instructional Strategies and Content Representation, Knowledge of Teachers and Students as well as KnowledgeofCurriculum.ThisstudyenrichestheresearchmethodforthefieldofTeacherKnowledge.

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students’ perceptions / teacher knowledge / evaluation instrument / business English teachers PCK

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JIANG Xia & WANG Xuemei. The development and application of an instrument for assessing college students perceptions of business English teachers pedagogical content knowledge[J]. Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice. 2020, 169(1): 9

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