Abstract:

Thanks to the Internet, which has been widely used, Internet tools have become indispensable parts of almost all of our lives and have begun to be used in various fields. One of the most important areas of these is the education-training environment. The "New English Teaching Program", released by the Ministry of National Education, Board of Education in 2018, promotes Internet-based teaching models such as "mobile and computer-assisted foreign language teaching" and "blended learning". Therefore, this research intends to investigate whether students majoring at an ELT Department of a state university in Turkey are competent enough about technologies and concepts used for educational purposes such as Web 2.0 tools that can make the lessons effective and entertaining because they are expected to follow the program released by the Ministry of National Education when they started their teaching profession. Totally, 125 students from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades participated in the research. Data were collected by a Likert-type scale with 39 items. In the study, in which the quantitative research technique was used, the competencies of the participants were investigated according to the variables of age, gender, grades and high schools. Findings were statistically evaluated and discussed. Consequently, it has been affirmed that some of the students had moderate knowledge and competencies about using these tools.

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