INVESTIGATING EFL PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' BELIEFS AND COMPETENCE REGARDING PRONUNCIATION TEACHING.

This study attempted to explore senior pre-service english teachers' beliefs in english pronunciation instruction and their beliefs in their competence regarding english pronunciation instruction. the participants were 17 senior pre-service english teachers studying at a state university. a modified version of the questionnaire that szyszka (2016) developed was used to obtain data. while descriptive statistics were employed to analyze quantitative data, content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. the findings revealed that most participants had positive attitudes toward pronunciation teaching and perceived themselves as adequate to teach english pronunciation. however, contrary to their beliefs, they claimed they did not have the necessary methodological knowledge to instruct english pronunciation due to their insufficient training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]