Metalinguistic awareness and teacher self-efficacy beliefs of language teachers: A correlational study on prospective Turkish teachers
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https://doi.org/10.29329/pedper.2023.16Keywords:
Metalinguistic awareness, Turkish teaching, Prospective teachers, Teacher self-efficacyAbstract
The concept of metalinguistic awareness, which refers to knowing and consciously applying the structural features of the language that people speak, is a concept related to being able to understand the language. It can be said that these skills are expected to be acquired by those who will teach language lessons. Because these teachers transfer all aspects of language to students. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between Turkish teacher candidates' meta-linguistic awareness and teacher self-efficacy beliefs. For this purpose, 308 prospective Turkish language teachers were reached. Since these prospective Turkish teachers should have taken most of the skills and teaching courses, the students were selected from the 3rd and 4th grades. "Turkish Metalinguistic Awareness Scale", "Self Efficacy Belief Scale in Turkish Language Teaching" and "Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale" were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, t-test, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used. According to the findings of the study, it was concluded that metalinguistic awareness significantly predicted Turkish language teaching self-efficacy and teachers' sense of efficacy.
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