Professional development for teacher-trainees is commonly viewed as the relationship between a university supervisor, a school mentor and the trainee. The feedback provided by more experienced practitioners is thought to enhance professional development process. On the other hand, peer-feedback can also be used as a means to facilitate teaching practices of pre-service teachers. By receiving and providing feedback, the teacher candidates can also gain a better understanding of their own learning processes. By following a triangulation mixed methods design, this study aims to investigate the peer-feedback practices of 100 pre-service English teachers. The study also examines the relationship between reflective practice and peerfeedback. For the data collection tool, an online rubric scale consisting of forty questions has been used. Data analysis procedure entailed descriptive statistics and coding of the qualitative data. The items in the rubric scale were categorized and the results obtained from quantitative data were compared with findings acquired through qualitative data. The results of the study revealed that the pre-service teachers tend to give high scores (m=4.37) for their peers; although, they provided some criticisms in their comments. The study also showed that, the most problematic areas for the participants were pronunciation of the target language, asking questions, error correction, linking previous lesson and the present one, and using audible voice. The results gained from qualitative analysis indicate that the participants also had difficulties with classroom management, nervousness and cooperation. The findings of the study suggest some fruitful implications to reinforce peer-feedback practices in pre-service teacher education.

The aim of this study was to examine the change of ELT pre-service teachers" cognition during teaching practicum uncovering their beliefs regarding language teaching, being a teacher and dynamics of practicum. To adopt a comprehensive perspective on how the participants" cognition evolved as a result of practicum, qualitative research design with open-ended surveys before and after the practicum process was conducted with ELT pre-service teachers. The findings were evaluated and discussed in terms of a certain framework with change categories of Cabaroglu and Roberts (2000). The results indicated that the practicum is apt to change the pre-service teachers" beliefs through awareness, elaboration, addition, re-ordering and reversal as a result of practicum. As the results suggest the practicum provides a real-life context for the pre-service teachers, they could adopt their grounded beliefs, which were acquired as language learners, and transform them into language teachers" beliefs. As the participants stated the mentor, supervisor and classroom dynamics enabled such transformation, mostly in positive route. However, there are some stable beliefs that did not change during the practicum. The participants kept some functioning beliefs for their teaching practice. The results implied the complexities of the practicum process on the pre-service teachers" cognition.