Original article | International Journal of Educational Researchers 2015, Vol. 6(3) 34-42
Fatih Kana
pp. 34 - 42 | Manu. Number: ijers.2015.011
Published online: December 01, 2015 | Number of Views: 178 | Number of Download: 888
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of Turkish language pre-service teachers’ communication skills. Descriptive survey model was used in this study. 218 pre-service Turkish language teachers, who are studying at Department of Turkish Language Teaching at a university in the west of Turkey, participated in the study. Criterion sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used in the choice of the participants of this study. As an instrument for data collection, this study used “Inventory of Communication Skills” finalized by Ersan and Balcı (1998) on some pre-service Turkish Language teachers. As the collected data exhibited normal distribution, t-test and one-way variance analysis were used in the study. Pre-service teachers of Turkish Language find themselves adequate in the followings in order; behavioral communication skills, cognitive communication skills and emotional communication skills. The findings of the study suggest that there has been a significant difference between pre-service teachers’ communication skills, their gender and their class levels. It was also found in this study that there is no significant difference between communication skills of pre-service teachers and their grade-point averages and the high school that they graduated from
Keywords: Communication skills, Turkish language pre-service teachers, Turkish education.
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