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    Oral and written competencies in first year education students: an analysis of self-evaluation narratives on the transition from High School to University
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2020) Hoydalsvik, Torhild Erika Lillemark; Osdal, Hilde Randi
    INTRODUCTION. This article presents a study concerning Norwegian trainee teachers’ understanding of their oral and written competencies in higher education. The study focused on first year Education students as they prepared to become school or kindergarten teachers. The study aimed to explore student teachers’ perceptions of their own performance in meeting the oral and written objectives of the academy. METHOD. The study sample included part-time and full-time students in the degree of education pursuing to teach in kindergartens and full-time master’s students pursuing to be primary and secondary school teachers. RESULTS. The findings in this analysis of student teachers’ experience concerning oral and written competencies, as expressed in sixty-seven narratives, indicated that they experienced high degrees of mastery for oral competency but lower levels for written competency. Furthermore, students struggled with what they described as hidden or unclear expectations related to academic text production. DISCUSSION. Based on four specific findings, the authors proposed further investigation of students’ experiences in mastering language competencies. These findings on Norway will have parallels to other professional education programs elsewhere in Europe.