Factors influencing Turkish teacher candidates' elective course preferences

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  • Duygu Uçgun Niğde University

Keywords:

Elective Course, Teacher Candidate, Teacher Training, Program, Preference

Abstract

By the Academic Year of 2006-2007, new curriculum has been begun to be applied in the Faculties of Education. When it is evaluated in terms of Turkish Language Teacher Training Departments, it is seen that the most attractive changes are the abolition of Side Branch application, the increase in the number of the courses which will contribute to teacher candidates’ profession and the enrichment in the content. In the curriculum are 5 elective courses beside necessary ones. The aim of this study is to determine what and how much effects the Turkish Language Teacher Candidates as they decide on the courses mentioned above. In the study, based on scanning method, of which subject is consists of 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students from Turkish Language Teacher Training Department, The Faculty of Education of Nigde University Likert-type Scale with four grades which was improved by Tezcan and Gumus (2008) has been used as data collection tool. According to the finding acquired from the study the factors effecting Turkish Language Teacher Candidates’ preferences about elective courses have been determined and ideas which are going to contribute to determination of elective courses and effective process of them have been suggested.

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Author Biography

Duygu Uçgun, Niğde University

Yrd. Doç. Dr., Niğde Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümü

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Published

2012-10-29

How to Cite

Uçgun, D. (2012). Factors influencing Turkish teacher candidates’ elective course preferences. Journal of Human Sciences, 9(2), 1337–1349. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/1560

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Education