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Building Communities With Preservice Teachers #586

This presentation will report on an action research project that was undertaken in university-level English teaching license courses. The research was triggered by five premises for community building by John F. Fanselow. One premise, for example, suggests that teachers and their students make small changes in their lessons in order to enrich classroom experience. Findings indicate that the preservice teacher participants experienced diversified feelings and emotions toward the collaborative approaches employed in the courses.