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The Impact of Pre-service Teachers’ Reflection

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KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Classroom Management: A term used by teachers to describe the process of ensuring that classroom
lessons run smoothly despite disruptive behavior by students.
EFL: The teaching of English to people whose first language is not English.
Instructional Practices: All approaches that a teacher may take to actively engage students in learning.
Pre-Service Teacher Education: A period of guided, supervised teaching.
Reflection: Important human activities in which people recapture their experience, think about it,
mull over and evaluate it.
Teaching Activities: Implementations used by the teachers that help to enhance learning in the
classroom.
Teaching Materials: A spectrum of educational materials used by the teachers in the classroom to
support specific learning objectives.

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