Abstract

• The main purpose of this research is to study the perceptions of pre-service teachers towards microteaching in Education Degree Colleges. For this study, four Education Degree Colleges were selected as the sample from Bago and Yangon regions by using simple random sampling method. All the participants were (303) Second Year, First Semester pre-service teachers within the (2022 2023) academic year. A questionnaire survey was used to collect the required data. This study includes five dimensions for the perceptions of pre-service teachers towards microteaching. It consists of (25) items. Using SPSS (22) version, descriptive analysis was employed to calculate the mean and standard deviation for the quantitative data. Moreover, the independent samples t test was used to examine whether the mean differences between the two groups (male and female) in the perceptions of pre-service teachers towards microteaching were statistically significant or not. The results showed that most of the pre-service teachers possessed moderate level of perceptions towards microteaching. Findings also indicated that the perception of personal feelings was the weakest and the perception of teaching practice competence and awareness was the strongest in the perceptions of pre-service teachers towards microteaching. According to research findings, there was no significant difference between the two groups (male and female) in the perceptions of pre service teachers towards microteaching. Therefore, this study can be hoped to support to some extent improving the positive perceptions of pre-service teachers towards microteaching in Myanmar.