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<strong>International</strong> <strong>Teacher</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>2014</strong><br />

The Applied Science Model<br />

The Applied Science Model is the traditional and perhaps currently the most prevalent model underlying<br />

most ESL teacher education programs. Teaching is a science and as such can be examined rationally and<br />

objectively. <strong>Teacher</strong>s learn to be teachers by being taught research-based theories. These theories are being<br />

conveyed to the students only by those who are considered to be the experts in the particular field. Practice is<br />

given towards the end of education and continuous in-service teacher training is provided throughout the<br />

teaching profession.<br />

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Figure 2 The Applied Science Model (Wallace 1991)<br />

The Reflective Model<br />

The Reflective Model embraces the former two models and adds reflective cycle to them. It is based on<br />

Schon’s work (1987), Educating the Reflective Practitioner. Above all, this model takes the trainees former<br />

education into consideration and do not treat the trainees as tabula rasa. Wallace then adds the received<br />

knowledge (from the Applied Science Model) and the experiential knowledge (from the Craft Model). Received<br />

knowledge is “facts, data, and theories often related to some kind of research” (1991:12). Experiential<br />

knowledge is knowing through ongoing experience of being students in the training classroom. He then suggests<br />

blending these two types of knowledge with practice in reflective cycle.<br />

The reflective practice has become a dominant paradigm in language teacher education research and<br />

programs worldwide. The Reflective Model is based on the assumption that teachers develop professional<br />

competence through reflecting on their own practice. In other words, a teaching experience is recalled and<br />

considered to reach an evaluation and to provide input into future planning and action<br />

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