Examination of Foreign Language Teachers Commitment Levels to Curriculum During the Covid-19 Pandemic Period

Abstract

In this study, the aim was to examine foreign language teachers’ commitment levels to the curriculum working in formal primary and secondary education institutions during Covid-19 pandemic period. With this general purpose, foreign language teachers’ level of commitment to the curriculum was compared in terms of different variables (gender, type of school they graduated from, teaching level, year of experience). In this respect, this study is descriptive research in the scanning model. The study was carried out with the participation of 92 foreign language teachers working in primary and secondary education in a city center located in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey in the 2020-2021 academic year. In the study, the ‘personal information form’ developed by the researchers and the ‘Curriculum Commitment Scale’ developed by Yaşaroğlu and Manav (2015), was employed as data collection tools. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic deviation in data analysis; t Test for Independent Groups were used to compare the means of two groups, and One-way Analysis of variance was used to compare the means of more than two groups. As a result it was concluded that the commitment level of foreign language teachers to the curriculum is high and there is no significant difference in the level of commitment to curriculum according to their demographic characteristics.