Five-Minute Paper as a Reflection Tool in Teaching

Authors : Özlem KÖPRÜLÜ

Pages : 77-91

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Publication Date : 2018-12-17

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Being a reflective teacher means developing him/herself continuously, and it requires collecting data about their teaching styles, attitudes and teaching practices and using this information for critical reflection in their courses. In this study, the researcher aimed to change the contents of her courses, materials and teaching techniques in line with the students ‘requests and also show that the students’ ideas were taken into consideration and they were included in the process of deciding what to do in the courses.. For this reason, “five-minutes papers”, which is one of the tools used to achieve formative feedback from learners, was used and two questions  were asked to the students:1- “What were your expectations from the course? Have they been met?” 2.“Is there anything that should be done differently?”. It was administered to the freshmeninsert ignore into journalissuearticles values(49 students); for “Lexical Competence”, to the juniorsinsert ignore into journalissuearticles values(75 students); for   “Methodology”   and to the seniors   insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(54 students); for “English Language Testing and Evaluation” courses at English Language Teaching Department in Buca Faculty of Education at Dokuz Eylül University at the end of the 2014-2015 academic year in the last ten minutes of their courses. Students’ suggestions were collected and analyzed by the researcher and their positive and negative ideas were collected under some main headings for each course and provided with the   number of the students     
Keywords : Five minutes papers, reflective teaching, teaching practices, teaching styles