A Complementary Study On European Portfolio for Student Teachers Of Languages in Relatıon to The European Profiling Grid

Abstract

The current practices in the field of foreign language teacher education have a heavy inclination to make use of traditional means especially throughout the assessment process of prospective teachers at foreign language departments. Observing the world in terms of teacher education makes it urgent to include more reflective and objective tools in Practice Teaching courses. Since the success and the level of affective factors play a huge importance in teacher education as well as cognitive factors while preparing the prospective teachers to their real life experiences, taking into consideration of their reflections and an attempt to increase the level of autonomy, self-efficacy, and self-assessment come on the scene of teacher education. The urgent need of these reflections put the policy makers, professors, educators, practitioners to search for different types of tools to be used for reflections in the process of teacher education.