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HOW FUTURE ENGLISH TEACHERS COMPREHEND THE CONCEPTION OF STATISTICS
XMLABSTRAK
As English Learners with language limitation, future English teachers often
encounter specific challenges in learning statistics. While as future teachers and
citizens, they need to be aware of the important of statistics in promoting their
learning ability and statistical literacy to be lifelong learners and good citizens. This
article reports an empirical study on future English teachers’ views of the importance
of statistics course for their life and future professions. This study applied
phenomenographic method to analyze interview transcripts and written responses
data of 44 future English teachers taking introductory statistics course. A range of
views of the importance of statistics from limited to more integrated ones were found.
Considering how they value the statistics provides an opportunity for teachers to
develop more proper statistics teaching that could lead students towards more
integrated views of the significance of statistics for them as future teachers and
citizens.
Keywords: conceptions of statistics, future English teachers, phenomenography
Detail Information
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Khairiani Idris - Personal Name
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English
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Publisher | Department of Mathematics National Taiwan Normal University : Taiwan., 2014 |
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