Teacher Belief and Teacher Decision Making

Education

Teaching is an ethical act since teacher’s act from a system of belief, which are either articulated or implicit. Teachers are also constantly making decision about subject matter and pedagogy, about “what “and “how” to teach. While many external and internal factors affect these academic and curricular decision, the single major factor influencing them is the system of beliefs they hold about the content and the context of their professional activity. This paper addresses issues with specific relevance to English Language teachers: Why English Language teachers want their students to learn English; what they believe about English and about their students; the choice they make in their language classes about curriculum, instructional strategies and assessment, and the belief in which these decisions are made.

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