Özet:

It is widely known that culture in any form has a great impact on forming education. At this point, we can see so many tools to be used as both cultural and educational mediators in teaching and learning process. Finger games is one the most important agents to educate the children in early years. Furthermore, finger games contribute to the development of children including language, cognitive, physical, social etc., domains. The aim of the study is to analyze and define the contributions of finger games to the early literacy development of the children in early years. In this process, 97 pre-service preschool teachers and 10 preschool master students were requested to respond the open-ended questions related to the usage and effects of finger games on early literacy development of the children. The data handled were aggregated on the basis of content analysis technique. As a last remark, some recommendations were made to the preschool teachers and parents about the use of finger games to facilitate the early literacy development of the children as an effective educational tool.

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