The Relationship Between the Emotional Literacy Skills and Communication Skills of Pre-Service Turkish Teachers

Abstract

The aim of the current study is to determine the relationship between the emotional literacy skills and communication skills of the pre-service Turkish teachers. The population of the study employing the relational survev model based on discriptive model, is comprised of 249 pre-service teachers attending the Department of Turkish Teaching in Mugla Sitki Kocman University while the sample is comprised of 196 pre-service teachers who could be reached from the population without any sampling. As the data collection tools, a personal information form, the “Emotional Literacy Skills Scale (ELSS)” and the “Communication Skills Evaluation Scale” were used. In order to determine the emotional literacy and communication skills of the pre-service teachers, t-test was used in binary comparisons, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for comparisons having more than two dimensions. Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated to determine the relationship between the levels of emotional literacy skills and communication skills of the pre-service teachers. In the analysis of the collected data, descriptive statistics such as arithmetic means and standard deviations were used. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the levels of the emotional literacy skills and communication skills of the pre-service Turkish teachers are high. The pre-service teachers’ emotional literacy skills and communication skills were found to be varying significantly depending on gender in favour of the female pre-service teachers, yet, they were found to be not varying significantly depending on grade level. It was also found that with the increasing level of emotional literacy skills, the pre-service teachers’ level of communication skills also increased and that there is a positive, medium and significant correlation between their emotional literacy skills and communication skills.