The Pedagogy of Cultivating Confidence and Assertiveness in Preservice English Language Teachers in Order to Enhance their Self-Concept
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2024
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East African Journal of Education Studies
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Confidence and assertiveness are two essential components of interpersonal communication that every school-going child ought to tap into in order to thrive and succeed in the school environment as well as contribute to its well-being. Teacher education institutions have the obligation to cultivate confidence and assertiveness in their learners such that they are empowered enough to be able to establish lasting healthy interpersonal relationships in schools. This study was conducted at Makerere University, College of Education and External Studies, Department of Humanities and Language Education, in the English Language and Literature in English section. The study focused on the English language teacher trainers (ELTT) and Preservice English language teachers (PELT) as the unit of analysis. The main objective was to establish the pedagogies ELTT used to cultivate confidence and assertiveness in the PELT. The study was qualitatively conducted and an in-depth interview guide, focus group discussion guide and document analysis guide were the instruments used to collect data. The results revealed that confidence and assertiveness are not catered for in the English language Teaching (ELT) curriculum, but the teacher trainers cultivated confidence and assertiveness extemporaneously as situations arose during lecturer-learner interactions. The study recommends that confidence and assertiveness should be included in the ELT curriculum, the number of PELT admitted and a policy on mark allocation be tabled so that lecture attendance, participation and research work take the greatest percentage of the marks in order to neutralise the grade-centric mindset of the learners and encourage lecture attendance
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Mukwana, N. I. & Connie, S. M. (2024). The Pedagogy of Cultivating Confidence and Assertiveness in Preservice English Language Teachers in Order to Enhance their Self-Concept East African Journal of Education Studies, 7(3), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajes.7.3.2025