TEACHING PRACTICE: SOME LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ON A GLOBAL PRACTICE

Some form of teaching practice (TP),which we here define as the part of the initial teacher training period which student teachers (STs) spend teaching in aschool,trying out what they have learned, is a component of initial (language) teacher education (ITE) curricula in most educatedsystems. The 2016 Hornby scholars have taken differed routes into teaching. However, apart from Mohammed and Abdullah, whose course as language graduate sin Sud an did not include TP and who thus had tolearn tot each through teaching, they all experienced some form of initial teacher training, and so a period of TP.