Özet:

With the recent efforts that maintain and support preschool education in Turkey, many preschool age children from various ethnic language groups have been reached. Hence, this situation requires preschool education teachers who are knowledgable and experienced in children’s different languages (and sensitive to those languages) and their educational needs. This qualitative study aimed to examine a group of preschool preservice teachers’ views on multilingual education and to see whether they are knowledgable and aware of the issues related with multilingual education. 15 preschool education pre-service teachers were interviewed face to face and the data were examined through descriptive qualitative analysis. Results of the study were presented and interpreted under three major themes. Within the light of the results, suggestions were made discussed in various topics such as, (re)stucturing preschool education teacher preparation programs and supporting teacher candidates with theoretical and practicum courses about multilingual education who will welcome and fulfill the needs of children coming from ethnic language groups

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