Future Anxiety of French as a Foreign Language Trainee Teachers in Turkey, A Mixed Explanatory Research with Faculty of Education Students
Future Anxiety of French as a Foreign Language Trainee Teachers in Turkey, A Mixed Explanatory Research with Faculty of Education Students

Summary/Abstract: The lack of tenured positions for French as a Foreign Language (FFL) teachers in the public sector in Turkey is a recurrent problem. The aims of this research are therefore to determine if this situation affects the level of anxiety due to the non-tenure of FFL trainee teachers, to establish the possible causes of this anxiety and to understand if they are confronted with feelings of incertitude and / or doubt towards their future. Another aim of this research is to investigate the impact of non-tenure on the academic motivation of FFL trainee teachers. The research was conducted following a mixed explanatory method in two consecutive stages starting with the collection of quantitative data through the anxiety scale due to the nontenure of trainee teachers and the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS). The sample for the quantitative phase involved 428 FFL trainee teachers from 6 Faculties of Education in Turkey. Semi-directed interview forms were used for the collection of qualitative data from 18 FFL trainee teachers from 2 universities involved in the quantitative phase. The research was conducted during the academic year 2019-2020. The findings of our research focus on the problems that FFL trainee teachers may encounter due to the lack of job positions for teachers in the public sector. The results allowed a reflection on solutions that could be envisaged in higher education and at the Ministry of Education in Turkey (MoNE).

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