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Perceptions of EFL teachers at King Abdulaziz University regarding the effectiveness of Cambridge University press’s train the trainer course
Catherine Karen Roy1, Sabitha Rahim2, Aishah Yaqoub Khojah3.
This study adds to the current literature on ongoing in-house professional development for teachers
by exploring how administrators, other faculty, and the English-language (EFL) teachers who
participated in Cambridge University Press’s Train the Trainer course (TTT) at King Abdulaziz
University (KAU), Saudi Arabia, judged the TTT’s usefulness. To determine whether to support
the TTT in the future, KAU wanted to identify how well its TTT graduates could provide
professional development to their colleagues. This study’s aim is to discuss how positively those
who were involved in the TTT, particularly the administration, the TTT graduate trainers
themselves, and the other teachers who attended the workshops presented by first-year graduates
of the ELI’s TTT responded to the course. The main question it addresses is how successful the
implementation of such a TTT course can be at the English language institute of a Saudi university,
like at KAU, so as to determine if the TTT should continue to be offered at KAU and more
generally, taking the example of the ELI at KAU, if the TTT course should also be proposed at
other English language institutes in Saudi Arabia. This study employed a Likert scale survey, semistructured
interviews, and open-ended questions with TTT participants, administrators, and other
faculty to assess the TTT’s initial value. The main finding of this study is that so far, the TTT
course was perceived as beneficial. However, future analyses should evaluate the longer-term
effects of the TTT on teaching approaches and student learning.
Affiliation:
- King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
- King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
- King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
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