PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHER TRAINEES UPON ONLINE LANGUAGE EDUCATION PROGRAMME

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Cubukcu F.

REVISTA IBERO-AMERICANA DE ESTUDOS EM EDUCACAO, vol.16, no.1, pp.246-257, 2021 (ESCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 16 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Doi Number: 10.21723/riaee.v16i1.13760
  • Journal Name: REVISTA IBERO-AMERICANA DE ESTUDOS EM EDUCACAO
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Academic Search Premier, Directory of Open Access Journals, DIALNET
  • Page Numbers: pp.246-257
  • Keywords: Teacher trainees, Online education, Merit, Demerit
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Instructional technologies have been used extensively after the spread of COVID19. Council of Higher Education in Turkey closed down all the universities and embarked on online education by issuing a statement that all universities were free to choose the platform they wished to use. This study aims at discovering how online language teacher education programmes yielded emerging patterns and how teacher trainees' perspectives were in relation with these online language teacher education programmes. To reach this aim, 275 teacher trainees at the Department of English Language Teaching participated in the study and semi-structured interviews were held with them. This discussion illuminates critical issues and attitudes of teacher trainees along with the challenges unique to programmes as a future research agenda.