Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The European Conference on Language Learning 2019 Official Conference Proceedings, London, Birleşik Krallık, 19 Temmuz 2019 - 21 Haziran 2020, ss.1-8
In teacher education programs, one of the required attainments of any ideal pre-
service teacher program is to enable pre-service teachers to be aware of research
literacy competencies and have practice to improve such competencies during their
education. This study aims at equipping the participants with the necessary critical
skills and research literacy competencies and tries to investigate whether these
implementations create awareness about this issue. This study was conducted at
Çukurova University with 55 second-year participants studying in the department of
English Language Teaching in the 2018-2019 Academic Year Fall Semester. The data
was collected through a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and self-reflective
reports. The results of this study show that most of the students do not have much
information about research literacy competencies while some of them are aware of it
to some extent. This study sheds light on the importance of integrating critical
awareness into research literacy competencies in the Teacher Education Programs.
The results of this study also contributes to both the pre-service teachers’ professional
development and the Teacher Education Programs regarding the importance of
integrating critical awareness into research and their future classroom practices
effectively.
Key words: Teacher education, ELT, research literacy competencies