Preservice teachers perception and attitudes towards the development of monograph to get graduated

Abstract

This paper examined last semester’s preservice teachers’ perceptions and attitudes toward the development of research to graduate in the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program from the Universidad Distrital. Based on a survey carried out in 2022, results suggested that research might be a popular option among preservice teachers. We considered some reasons why they avoided the monograph as a degree option, such as lack of motivation, low confidence in their research skills, lack of financial support from the different educational entities; and no time to invest in research, among other aspects. Since one of the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program's main objective is a teacher-researcher profile formation, this gap in research has worried us. As preservice teachers of the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program and members of internautas, contextos y prácticas research hotbed we have witnessed different and many activities and discourses around research, even though the university has other degree project modalities. That is why this study is supported by data from our personal experiences and articles that handle types of information about perceptions and demotivating factors in preservice teachers when developing research. However, it was necessary to work on specific contexts to know the actual tendencies among the preservice teachers and get a better conclusion to confirm or reject the initial assumption. We also used previous information to analyze the different findings in each article and group them into similar findings to strengthen the research project. We must clarify that information was taken from our data collection instruments, context, and participants. Lastly, according to what was found in the research project, our findings indicated that the monograph as a degree project was the most popular degree option among preservice teachers, also most of them considered the research experience offered by the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program satisfactory. Other chosen options were internship and postgraduate academic spaces, where research is not broadly applicable. The results could be considered and checked, and we found that the research experience offered by the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program was good, still while working on the data collected, we provided a discussion and recommendations for the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages program.