Innovation in Language Learning

This study aims to investigate the thoughts of student teachers about their development in their teaching practices in three months. The 12 participants were given an open ended questionnaire. The participants were asked 5 questions asking them to reflect on their first and last teaching experiences such as evaluating their first and last teaching experiences, stating the areas and skills they improved, their inadequacies in terms of English Language Teaching (ELT) and the contributions –if any- of the mentor teacher they worked with. Some of the student teachers mentioned about problems of time management, excitement, problems that occured because of lack of experince and their concerns of making mistakes while teaching.The responses were categorized and the frequencies of each topic that came out from the data were calculated. The findings supported the literature with regard to the differences between the first and second teaching experiences and the reasons for this difference. This study provided valuable implications for both the future research and practice teaching course design.

keywords: language teaching, teacher training, student teachers, reflections on teaching experiences, student teachers' improvements and weaknesses