Abstract:

Formation programs for teachers was opened by Turkish Council of High Education for those who were not graduated from faculty of education. However, there are still ongoing debates about some issues such as the duration of these programs, the content of the courses given, the quality of instructors teaching these courses. This issue is concerned with the prospective teachers of Turkish language and literature in private. One of the courses included in the formation program of teaching Turkish language and literature is “Special Teaching Methods”. This lesson is important in that prospective teachers could recognize about the field, they have the related skills about it, they could learn the methods, techniques and strategies about it and they have the right qualification to turn these strategies into practise. The purpose of this paper is to determine prospective teachers’ opinions studying on pedagogical formation training about the course “Special Teaching Method” and to put forward some suggestions in order to increase the efficiency of the lessons they take. In the study, as one of the qualitative data collection methods, semi-structured interview form was used. The participants of the study were determined through the accessibility sample method and they consist of 15 pre-service Turkish language and literature teachers studying formation training in Cukurova University in 2014-2015 education year. The data collected were evaluated through the content analysis method. At the end of the study, the prospective teachers stated that the course of special teaching methods would be beneficial for their academic career in the future and underlined that the issues such as methods and techniques and the terms about the literature should be emphasized more. The prospective teachers also specified the allocated time for the lessons is sufficient in general.

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