Opinions of Turkish language teacher candidates on the statuses of teachers' usage of basic language skills and on the lessons in the curriculum

The purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of the students of the Department of Turkish Language Teaching on the statuses of teachers' usage of basic language skills and on the lessons in the curriculum. In this research opinions of 235 students, attending to the Department of Education of Turkish Language during 2009-2010 were taken and a survey form, consisting of four questions was used as a data collection instrument. The gathered data were analyzed by using the technique of descriptive analysis and the findings were presented numerically. In light of the findings; we see that teacher candidates find teachers very sufficient in listening skill, insufficient in writing skill, that teachers use speaking skill most in the lessons; tell that the lessons in bachelor's degree program do not support basic language skills, and they emphasized that critical reading, creative writing, effective speaking lessons should be included in the program and their hours should be increased. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.