Brain Based Learning and Teacher Education

This book represents a study that attempts to investigate the effectiveness of brain based learning in programs of teacher education in the Egyptian context. For doing so, it develops a training program for enhancing listening and pronunciation teaching skills for a sample of 21 prospective EFL teachers in light of the principles and teaching techniques of brain based learning. It adopts the one-group experimental design. It also uses a number of tools: an achievement test, an observation checklist, a listening test, and a pronunciation test. The study results suggested the effectiveness of the proposed training program in developing listening and pronunciation teaching skills of prospective EFL teachers in light of brain based learning.Therefore, a number of conclusions were reached, and suggestions for further research were presented.