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Messages - A.S. Rafi

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I  was wondering if our colleagues would be interested to carry out similar kind of research from their own perspectives and classroom contexts? The abstract  is given below. I have access to Taylor & Francis and I can provide you with the full text for gaining more insights.

Abstract
The poor classroom practices of English teachers at elementary level in Indonesia have been attributed to the inadequacy of pre-service education. Yet, whether in-service professional development (PD) also plays a role is unknown. This study investigated the perspectives of 23 teachers, 14 teacher educators and 3 school principals regarding the efficacy of in-service PD in preparing elementary English teachers. The results demonstrate that the shortage of quality teacher educators contributed to the inadequacy of in-service PD. While this study calls for more systematic efforts to tackle the shortage of quality teacher educators, it also highlights the needs for PD of teacher educators. Furthermore, the intrusion of educational administrators adversely affected the design and administration of teacher preparation programs, resulting in the poor training management and the ambiguous selection of training participants. The study further asserts the necessity for empowerment of teacher educators in order to enable them to contribute to the much-needed transformation of in-service PD.

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English / Re: Another word
« on: May 03, 2017, 10:22:31 PM »
aa: Basaltic lava forming very rough, jagged masses with a light frothy texture.

Origin:
Mid 19th century: from Hawaiian 'a-'a.

Source: Oxford Dictionary.

If you are happy now  :)

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English / Re: Another Song of Nazrul
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:21:44 PM »
amazing  :)

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English / Re: A Song of Kazi Nazrul Islam...
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:16:21 PM »
so beautiful  :-*

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English / Re: English Poetry
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:13:42 PM »
good resource.

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English / Re: How To Learn English!
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:12:23 PM »
nice strategies.

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English / Re: Deal with 'NO'
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:10:25 PM »
cool  8)

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English / Re: A story of positivism
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:09:55 PM »
enjoyed it thoroughly. thank you  :)

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English / Re: In One Line (Our Favourite Films and Why?)
« on: May 03, 2017, 07:09:18 PM »
interesting, I will come back here time and again  8)

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English / Re: Another word
« on: May 03, 2017, 04:26:00 PM »
The definition of AA is "Alcoholics Anonymous" or "African-American" or "Automobile Association  :)

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English / Re: What is a PhD?
« on: May 03, 2017, 01:38:27 PM »
something fun :P

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English / Re: Amazing websites for English language learning
« on: May 03, 2017, 01:37:15 PM »
can't thank enough  :'( this is a life saver post for coming semester  :'( :'(

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Tamanna  madam, we want to see the reward, post a selfie with it  8)

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tell  ;) we want to listen  ;D

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