ABSTRACT

This study was aimed at devising and validating a questionnaire on EFL teachers’ perceptions of reflective practice. To this end, seven experts in the field of Applied Linguistics were invited to check the face and content validity of the questionnaire with a checklist. They were also asked to rate the questionnaire items on a 5- point Likert scale. Based on the experts’ viewpoints (removing 3 items and making some revisions on 8 items) and the review of the relevant literature on teacher reflective practice, 45 items were selected and maintained for the initial scale. To validate the instrument, entailing 45 items, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA, CFA) were used. Based on the EFA results, 3 items were removed from the scale due to their ineffective loading on the factors and scree plot indicated that 5 factors (interpersonal, intrapersonal, critical, behavioral, and strategic) had acceptable eigenvalue that corresponded to the tentative model. The result of CFA also reduced the scale to 33 items. This validated instrument can be used to determine EFL teachers’ attempts to be reflective and their perceptions of reflective practice.

摘要

本研究旨在设计并验证一份关于英语教师对反思性实践的看法的调查问卷。为此，邀请了七位应用语言学领域的专家，用检查表对问卷的表面效度和内容效度进行了检验。他们还被要求按照 5 点李克特量表对问卷项目进行评分。根据专家观点（删除3项、修改8项）以及查阅教师反思实践相关文献，筛选出45项并维持初始量表。为了验证该工具，使用了探索性和验证性因素分析（EFA、CFA），涉及 45 个项目。根据 EFA 结果，有 3 个项目因对因素负载无效而从量表中删除，而碎石图表明 5 个因素（人际、个人、批判、行为和战略）具有与暂定模型相对应的可接受的特征值。CFA的结果也将范围缩小到33题。这个经过验证的工具可用于确定英语教师反思的尝试以及他们对反思实践的看法。