Native Language Awareness of Preservice Teachers

Serdar Akbulut,Eylem Ezgi Ahıskalı,Yasemin Aslan

doi:10.12973/ijem.7.1.67

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The language, in the most basic sense, is a means of communication among people. Since the proper and effective use of people’s native language will shape the whole life of an individual, individuals are expected to have native language awareness. There is a strong bilateral relationship between the effective use of native language and native language awareness. All the teachers/preservice teachers and especially native language teachers/preservice teachers, who are role models as being instructors, are expected to have this awareness and help students to gain and transfer it to the future generations. By this motivation, this study aims to examine language awareness of preservice teachers, an example from Turkey. Through phenomenological design of the qualitative research methods, it has been aimed to reach this goal. Accordingly, the data were collected through semi-structured and structured opinion forms from 60 preservice teachers studying in a state university. In the study, it was seen that preservice teachers generally have this awareness. It has been revealed that the preservice teachers tend to correct their use of language that they think is wrong, they investigate the word they do not know the spelling when they are indecisive, and they mostly find it necessary to obey the language rules in multimedia. It was concluded that attention in the use of language emphasizes the negativities to be encountered in the dimension of providing social communication in daily life.</p>

Highlights

In recent years, developments in technology have changed the role of the education system and brought countries closer through this change and development, communication across countries has gained importance and that paved the way for intercultural exchange
This study aims to examine language awareness of preservice teachers, an example from Turkey
It was seen that the competent use of the native language requires first to have awareness of the use of the native language

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Introduction

Developments in technology have changed the role of the education system and brought countries closer through this change and development, communication across countries has gained importance and that paved the way for intercultural exchange. Importance of language and language awareness, which was not seen as such an important concept before, gained importance as the role of communication technologies, globalization and social media in our lives increased. The relationship of the individual with the language that starts in the inner circle continues its development as the individual enters into the social life and it enables them to interact with the society (Aksan, 1990). Languages are cultural transmitters as well as being used by human beings to communicate. An important part of social life, provides interpersonal communication as well as cultural transmission across generations

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