Pre-service EFL Teacher Training Programs

To teach English adequately, qualified teachers are needed. Teachers need to have an understanding of the social, cultural, moral, ethical, and pedagogical issues of education and practice teaching in real situations. Teachers need to have knowledge, dispositions, and performances to support the learners with the needed skills and competences. This study was taken under the form of survey research that yielded descriptive information about English teachers' knowledge, dispositions, and performances. Three questionnaires consisting of INTASC model standards for beginning teachers were administered to 147 teachers in three successive sessions, each session lasted an hour. The participants self- evaluated themselves by stating their ideas in a five- level Likert scale. These results demonstrated that pre-service English teacher training programs in Iran train knowledgeable and disposed teachers practically. In order to improve the quality of pre-service English teacher training programs, the existing strong and weak points were analyzed by reviewing the related INTASC model principles and at the end, suggestions were presented correspondingly.