Self-efficacy perception of candidates' Turkish and primary school education on Turkish teaching

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the perceptions of self-efficacy in Turkish language and primary teaching trainees studying at the department of primary school teaching and Turkish language teaching. The study investigated whether the program in which they study had an impact on the perception of self-efficacy. As a descriptive study, the present study adopts a co-relational survey model, one of the commonly used survey models in the literature. In the present study, in which a previously developed self-efficacy perception scale was used, the data were analyzed using SPSS. The results indicated that the teacher trainees studying at the Turkish language teaching department had higher levels of self-efficacy. To boost the self-efficacy levels of the participants studying at the department of primary school education department various recommendations were made such as introducing more language courses and Turkish education courses into the curriculum and doing more practice.