The determination of Turkish and Turkish language and literature teacher candidates’ awareness of learning grammar

Abstract

This study aims to determine the direction what the mother tongue teacher candidates' awareness of why they learned grammar/features of the structure of the language. The research was conducted according to the document analysis method in qualitative research principles. The study group consisted of 94 students studying in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades of Turkish teaching and Turkish language and literature in the 2019-2020 academic year of a state university. As a method of data collection, the participants were asked to answer an open-ended question that was prepared and standardized in advance by the researchers in writing to create a comprehensive text. The texts created with this method were used as the documents of the research. The data analysis method of the research is a categorical analysis which is one of the content analysis types. The awareness of the study group on the subject determined was combined into six themes. According to the results, the study identified various awareness of prospective teachers of Turkish and Turkish language and literature regarding the formation of language awareness as; development of understanding skills, development of expression skills, language-reality relationship, functional language use, and thinking-language relationship were determined regarding learning the structural features/grammar of Turkish.