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DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y POSGRADO rring to teachers’ beliefs, most researchers
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feel that beliefs include teachers’ attitudes
about education, comprised of schools,
teaching, learning, and students”.For their
ners’ lives and how it functions within the
part, Shinde and Karekatti (2012) affirm that
PNIEB program is also important.In fact,
“if learners’ beliefs about language are con-
Perry (1997:3) stated that “all of the tea-
sidered important, the beliefs of their tea-
ching practice experiences will contribute
chers should also be considered as equally
in some way to the understanding of tea-
important” (p. 70).
ching but it is also important to learn how
Certainly, teachers have their own
to use the teachers’ experiences in order
ideas, attitudes and beliefs about how chil-
to learn the most from them”.
dren learn and specifically about how they
Teachers’ beliefs about how chil- learn languages. These beliefs vary from
dren learn languages. person to person for different reasons.As
Rokeach (in Deters, 2011) sustains that an example, Moon (2005) presents some
beliefs have cognitive, affective and beha- of the beliefs exposed by teachers atten-
vioral components, which are activated ding an international summer school.Ac-
when action is required.With respect to cording to these teachers, children learn a
teaching, actions are always required from foreign language:
teachers and they act according to the sys-
tem of ideas they already have as a result […] in a natural way, the same way
of their own background. That is, teachers they learn their own language.
act according to the years of experiencing, […]through being motivated. It de-
improving, trying new things, researching pends on the teacher’s style. If the
and even changing beliefs.Pajares (as cited teacher motivated them [students],
in Smeal, 2009: 15) suggests “When refe- they would learn fast or quicker.
[…] by listening and repeating.
[…] by imitating the teacher. They
want to please the teacher. They
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