Abstract:

Individuals need to use language skills to communicate with other individuals and to understand each other. These language skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Reading and writing skills are two important skills that start with primary school training and are used throughout the life. Thoughts on the reading and writing skills of the class teacher candidates who will give students this education in the primary school period are important. The aim of the study is to determine the metaphoric perceptions of class teacher candidates about their reading and writing skills. The research has been carried out in the fact scientific pattern, which is one of the quality research methods. The work group is the 1, 2, 3 and 4 class teachers candidates studying in the Department of Class Education of the University of Kafkas in the spring period of the 2018-2019 educational-learning year. The analysis of the data obtained in the study was carried out by metaphor analysis. The analysis of the data revealed 4 categories of reading and writing skills. These categories are "Cognitive Contribution", "Contribution to Personal and Professional Development", "Cognitive Contribution" and "Contribution to Intellectual Skills Development". According to the results obtained, the metaphoric perceptions of the teacher candidates about reading and writing are generally positive. If we accept the metafor as a mental outlook, different practices and activities can be carried out to improve their reading and writing skills by taking advantage of the positive attitudes of the teacher candidates. In addition, the study and similar studies can also study the causes of negative metaphors presented to the writing ability and implement designs aimed at eliminating this situation.

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