İngilizce Öğretmeni Adaylarının Sosyal Ağları Öğrenme ve Öğretme Amaçlı Kabul ve Kullanımı

Abstract

Online learning opportunities provide students with a chance to have education regardless of time and space. Accordingly, prospective teachers should be familiar with the use of social networks for both their own learning and also for teaching purposes. In this way, they can utilise social networks efficiently to improve their teaching and the first step in this is the attitudes. Accordingly, this study aims to unearth prospective English teachers’ acceptance and use of online social networks for learning and teaching purposes. 140 prospective English teachers studying at two state universities in Istanbul and Sakarya in the academic year of 2017-2018 make up the participants. The participants are selected through convenience sampling. As for data collection, The Scale of Acceptance and Use of Social Networks for Learning Purposes, developed by Kuzu-Demir and Akbulut (2017), was used. The data collected through this scale was analysed using percentage, frequency, independent sample t-test and variance analysis. The findings are discussed and evaluated to offer implications for second language teacher training, the use of social networks for learning purposes and education contexts in general.