The piloting of the interview guide for the focus group interviews took place at a prestigious university in Budapest. Given that the reason for using focus group interviews was to gain insight into teacher’s best practices when it comes to dealing with global content in class, first, four teacher trainers were interviewed about the ways they deal with such issues in class. Purposive sampling was used to identify the participants, who are all known to have substantial experience in dealing with global, local, and intercultural issues in their groups. All four people who were approached with the request to participate agreed to take part in the research project. Their codes, similar to the previous pilot studies, were created based on the first letter of the word pilot, and the first letter of their pseudonym.

 

 

As can be seen from Table 3.19, all four participants had considerably long teaching experience and all of them taught methodology-related courses at the Language Pedagogy Department.