ATTITUDES OF ELT LECTURERS TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY TIEN GIANG UNIVERSITY

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Professional development is one of the strategies for schools to enhance their teaching and learning quality. To organize professional development activities effectively, the schools should consider what their teachers think of these activities as well as concentrate on their favorite activities. This study was conducted to explore the lecturers’ attitudes toward professional development and find out which activity is preferred the most by 20 lecturers of Tien Giang University. In this study, quantitative approach was used with the questionnaire as a data collection tool. The study involved four kinds of professional development activities including workshops, training courses, action research and peer observation which help lecturers enhance their professional development. The results show that most of the lecturers have positive attitudes to professional development and workshops are organized the most frequently by the two institutions. In contrast, most of the lecturers give their priority to attend training courses for professional development because of great benefits of this type of activity. Through the results, it is strongly recommended that Tien Giang University should organize various professional development activities for their ELT lecturers with an emphasis on training courses in order to enhance their teaching and learning quality.

Từ khóa: Professional development, attitudes, workshops, training courses, action research, peer observation

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