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TESOL Practicum Mentoring for Pre-service Teachers: The Vision Versus the Reality

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This chapter critically reviews the use of mentoring for pre-service teachers during the pre-service practicum. Then, it examines an example which reports findings from a study which investigated the situation of mentoring pre-service language teachers during the practicum in Vietnam.

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Nguyen, H.T.M. (2017). TESOL Practicum Mentoring for Pre-service Teachers: The Vision Versus the Reality. In: Models of Mentoring in Language Teacher Education. English Language Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44151-1_3

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