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Analysis of Prospective Classroom Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Reading Book

European Journal of Education Studies, 2018

Teachers' attitudes towards reading affect their professional development. Since they will be teachers of the future, they have to show that they are worthy to read and show effective literacy behaviors and become successful teachers. The objective of the research is to determine the prospective classroom teachers’ attitudes towards reading book. The research model has been employed as survey which is one of the quantitative research methods. The study group of the research consists of 500 prospective classroom teachers receiving education in eight different cities. In the collection of research data, the Attitude Scale for Reading Book was used. Data were collected in December of the year 2017, and in the months of January, February, March, April and May of 2018. The prospective classroom teachers’ attitudes towards reading book were analyzed by gender, the city where lived in and the class level. 249 of the prospective teachers participating in the research are third year unde...

Teacher’s Views Regarding the Place of Children’s Literature in First Language Education

Teacher’s Views Regarding the Place of Children’s Literature in First Language Education, 2017

Children’s literature is the totality of spoken and written products formed with an aesthetic concern that contribute to the development, interests, needs, pleasure, emotions and ideas of individuals between the ages of 2–15. Defects and deficiencies that can be seen in the works of children’s literature—which directly contribute to the developmental fields and the talents of children regarding understanding and telling, comprehension and interpreting—will cause troubles to emerge when addressing to the aforementioned properties. This research aims to determine the views of Turkish language teachers regarding the power and efficiency of the children’s literature products and the acquisition of these properties. The research was conducted by employing a one-on-one interview according to a qualitative research approach. The study group participating in this research study comprised of 14 Turkish language teachers who work in Elazığ city center. A descriptive content analysis was used to evaluate the views of these Turkish teachers. Frequency and percentage distributions were then determined from these findings. The study findings show that the views of the participators regarding the efficiency of the children’s literature products resembled one another other in terms of different variables. Additionally, some views were determined regarding the need for including original works of art, cultural codes and more concretization.

According to students’ views the assessment of Turkish literature books

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010

The purpose of this research is to evaluate Turkish Literature lesson book according to students' views. For the research, description method has been used as a means of data collecting in the study. In the first section of the survey form, students' some of personal information, questions about a measuring tool with three levels consisted of 39 items in Likert style which was prepared by researchers have been used. Items graded in the scale as 'I don't agree', 'I'm hesitant', and 'I agree' have been marked in order of 1, 2, and 3. 9-12 class students having education at Siirt secondary schools in 2009-2010 Education Teaching year of spring term have composed of the phase of the study. After sorting out students reached for the implementation that filled the survey matters deficiently or answer survey matters without giving required precision, data received from the rest of 1381 students have been collected. Survey's level of cronbach alpha reliability coefficient has been determined as 0.76 with the reliability study done over collected data. In the analysis of data resolved with SPS programme in computer atmosphere, descriptive statistics, average, standard deviation, unrelated groups t-test, one way variance analysis, methods of multiple comparison have been resorted. Grade of meaningfulness has been received as 0.05.In the analysis's, views of students about Turkish literature lesson books 'adequacy have been given by means of research findings and results.

Perception's of Preservice Teachers 'Toward Children's Literature

Children's literature is used across the curriculum in elementary classrooms today. How is this literature viewed by preservice teachers and how will their viewpoints affect their use of literature with students? The purpose of this study was to describe preservice teachers' written responses to children's literature with geometric content. Six related, but distinct themes emerged after multiple readings of the responses; these themes depict preservice teachers who are: (1) making personal connections with literature, (2) reading for children, (3) being the teachers, (4) looking for the math, (5) finding instructional ideas, and (6) focusing on the morals.

The pattern of child books appreciation according to language and literature teaching

Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011

The main purpose of literature education is to train a good literature reader. Children’s literature which is a kind of transition literature, has a wide effective domain from acquiring the habit of reading to the development of literature sensitivity. At the same time, literary works make the children sense the artistic use of language and introduces the generous utilization areas of the native language. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the language pattern of Çetin Öner’s children’s books within the context of language and literature education. In this study, the language patterns of these books were examined with the use of descriptive method within the context of literature education. At the end of the examination, it was determined that the language pattern used in the Çetin Öner’s children’s books included structures that will make the reader recognize the artistic use of language. At the same time, Öner reflected the public and cultural relationships of the figures of the narrations through the language patterns, and created motion impression on the readers with literary arts, expressions and mold words.

A Phenomenological Study on Turkish Language Teachers’ Views on Characters in Children's Books

Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016

One of the indirect functions of the books is to help children discern the good, the nice and the correct through characters or protagonists to be self-identified. This study is to reveal what Turkish language teachers think about the character traits in children's books. One of the qualitative methods, phenomonological design was used in the study. The sample of the study was composed of Turkish language teachers teaching in public schools in different regions through snowball sampling. The data of the study were collected from Turkish language teachers by means of standardized open-ended interview form. The data were first analyzed by the researcher through descriptive analysis and the answers to questions in the interview form were classified in two different ways. The data under these two categories were tested in terms of content and classified into code and themes. The results of the study showed that the teachers were not informed of the protagonists in children's books, their traits, expectations of child readers and local and international sources in this field.

A Validity And Reliability Study On Attitude Scale For Preschool Teachers Towards Use of Story Books

In this study, population and sample are not specified as it is intended to develop as scale but working group is specified. It is informed about working group of Attitude Scale for Preschool Teachers towards Use of Story Books, data collection process and applications conducted in the validity and reliability studies. This study is composed of validity and reliability studies of data collection tool found necessary to determine attitudes of preschool teachers towards use of story books. The study was conducted from the main literature, relevant researches, components of psychometric feature and the observations towards the application.

Teachers’ attitudes towards the use of literature in the teaching of english as a foreign language

2013

The objectives of this study are to explore and describe teachers’ attitudes towards the use of literature in the teaching of English as a foreign language and the factors that affect the teachers’ use and non-use of literature in the EFL classroom. The study is an attempt to explorethe seemingly sense of apprehension and non-use of literature in the EFL classroom and the fact that the success or failure of an educational material depends largely on the attitudes of teachers towards the material introduced or implemented. This research was conducted with 9 teachers in the department of English, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts of Sebelas Maret University, Surkarta from September 2012 to February 2013. A qualitative phenomenological approach was employed and the data were taken via in-depth interview and non- participant observation. In analyzing the data, the descriptive phenomenological procedures of data analysis proposed by Parahoo (1997) were followed. The findings showed that (...

The Views of Greek Primary School Teachers about Children's Literature

2011

This study investigates the views of Greek primary education teachers regarding children's literature, their contribution to fostering their pupils' love of reading, and the help they provide their pupils in understanding texts. We investigate what teachers believe ...

Children's Books and Literature from the Perspectives of Preschool and Primary Teachers

Journal of Educational and Social Research, 2020

This paper seeks to understand how a group of preschool and primary teachers perceive the type of use they carry out of children’s literature. Thus, it analyses the type of books in the classrooms and the underlying criteria for their choice, the frequency of the activities implemented within this scope and the organisation of the educational environment for the promotion of reading skills. In terms of the methodology used, this research is based on the collection of information through a questionnaire survey, completed by 24 preschool teachers and 53 primary teachers of S. Miguel Island, The Azores, Portugal. The data collected were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The data allow concluding that, although all respondents value children’s literature, there are differences between the way preschool and primary teachers use it, alerting to the need for deeper reflection on the pedagogical practices implemented.