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Students’ Perceptions towards Co-teaching as an Innovative Approach in Teaching Excellence
Journal Title, Volume, Page:
International Journal of Arabic-English Studies Search (IJAES), 14,113-137
Year of Publication:
2013
Preferred Abstract (Original):
This study
argues that co-teaching between two different disciplines, i.e. English
and Engineering can contribute to the improvement in the quality of
teaching English in general and in enhancing communication skills and
class interaction in specific. To investigate this argument, one
Industrial Engineering teacher and two English language teachers
launched an innovative teaching experience through applying co-teaching
in their teaching of English 10322 course
for students of engineering and science. The ‘One Teaching-One
Assisting’ co-teaching approach was adopted in this study. Co-teaching
was employed to a class of 42 students to report the students’ attitudes
towards three main domains. More specifically, the researchers
investigated the students’ attitudes towards the co-teaching environment, the co-teacher himself and the benefits of co-teaching in improving students’ oral
communication, presentation and writing skills. Students’ attitudes
were collected via a self-report questionnaire as well as through
observations and interviews. The statistical analysis revealed general
positive attitudes in the three domains, however, significant
differences were only observed among both genders in their attitudes
towards the co-teaching environment, in particular, in improvements of
their writing skills in favor of females. 
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