Novice Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in the Czech Republic and their Drop-Out Intentions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jolace/7/2/article-p51.xml" target="_blank" >https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jolace/7/2/article-p51.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jolace-2019-0011" target="_blank" >10.2478/jolace-2019-0011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Novice Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in the Czech Republic and their Drop-Out Intentions

Original language description

Problems with staffing play a crucial role among factors influencing the quality of English language teaching at Czech primary and lower secondary schools. Since 1990 the shortage of teachers of English as a foreign language has been repeatedly reported by the Czech School Inspectorate. The shortage is largely caused by the reluctance of English language teacher education study programme graduates to accept teaching positions at primary and lower secondary schools. A drop-out syndrome in the early stages of the teachers’ career is another factor that may contribute to the lack of teachers of English. Unfortunately, it has not been researched in the Czech Republic and it has not been systematically monitored by the state. In the research study focusing on novice teacher drop-out, conducted in 2015–2017, we deal with the process of socialisation of novice teachers in schools and with external factors that influence the socialisation and that can be seen as predictors of novice teachers’ decision to stay in their current school or leave either the school or the teaching profession. The current paper presents partial findings related to drop-out intentions of novice teachers of English as a foreign language in comparison with teachers of other subjects. Our findings indicate that drop-out intentions are more frequent in teachers of English as a foreign language than for other teachers and that teachers of English evaluate their cooperation with colleagues and leadership at their schools more critically than other teachers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-12956S" target="_blank" >GA15-12956S: How context matters: objective determinants of novice teachers´ socialisation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

ISSN

1339-4045

e-ISSN

1339-4584

Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

51-77

UT code for WoS article

000502829500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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