Abstract
Aim of this study was to determine situation of pre-service primary school teachers' use of Turkish on the internet. The research was conducted on 100 students studying at the department of Primary School Education of Mustafa Kemal University. The research was descriptive. Data of the study was obtained from the students' conversations in Facebook in the preceding month. Percentages were applied for the analysis of statistical operations. As a result of the study, the students' mistakes made while using Turkish on the internet were categorized into three groups which were phonetic features, vocabulary use and spelling. Consequently, it was revealed that 62% of pre-service primary school teachers used undotted letters instead of Turkish letters, 83% of them did not use vowels, 58% of them made phone repetitions in stress-aimed words, and 50% of them wrote time affixes improperly.
Highlights
It was concluded that pre-service class teachers did not obey grammar rules while using Turkish on the internet
The mistakes they made were classified into 3 categories as phonetic features, vocabulary use and spelling
Mistakes made about phonetic features were using undotted letters instead of Turkish letters, using w instead of v, q instead of k, and not using r at the end of the words
Summary
The Internet is a point, which access to information from the adolescents, facilitates research, so that, while the agenda as a resource to support the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity [3]; from another point extreme, depending on the purpose of use out of control and is believed to adversely affect the development of personal skills ([5]; [19]) People can share their ideas, discuss on these ideas and create new ideas on social media. This situation causes Turkish to degenerate in virtual world This careless usage affects phonetic, vocabulary and sentence structure of Turkish in a negative way, which may cause non-recoverable results in the future. The way of class teachers’ using Turkish on the internet and the mistakes they made were revealed
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