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Communication is one of the leading skills expected from a successful teacher. The communication established within the school contributes to both professional and personal development of teachers. As the concept of communication is so important nowadays, the "Effective Communication" course is offered in undergraduate programs in order to bring primary school teacher candidates in effective communication skills. The purpose of this study is to reveal the metaphors (mental images) used by primary school teacher candidates regarding communication. The research was carried out with 66 3rd and 4th year primary school teacher candidates. The participants were pre-service teachers who enrolled in the Effective Communication course in the Summer semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. In order to collect the data, an open-ended questionnaire form was prepared to reveal the opinions of the pre-service teachers regarding the concept of communication. In the questionnaire form, pre-service teachers were asked to complete blank spaces in the sentence, "Effective communication ....... Like this; because...” The following research questions were sought to answer: "What metaphors do teacher candidates use to explain the concept of communication?" and "Where categories can the metaphors used by the teacher candidates be grouped based on their common features?". The opinions of the teacher candidates on the concept of the curriculum were analyzed via content analysis. The analysis and interpretation process was carried out by taking into account the naming stage, the screening and refining stage, the compilation and categorization stage, and the validity and reliability stage. The result shows that teacher candidates give importance to the concept of communication and see this concept as vital. Because, according to the responses of the participants, the concept of communication is mostly compared to water, oxygen and shopping.

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