Comparing Web Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Turkish and English Language Teaching Department Students

Year 2017, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 67 - 78, 01.04.2017

Furkan Aydın Aysun Eroğlu , Mehmet Barış Horzum

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Comparing Web Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Turkish and English Language Teaching Department Students

Abstract

In today’s information age, with the developing of technology, the Internet is now used in nearly every
field. The Internet, which makes the accessing and sharing of information easier, has become the most
used technology of our age. As a result of the Internet’s effect on every sector, the education sector has
also witnessed many changes, with technology having affected the education through new teaching
approaches and technological tools in education have become widespread. Accordingly, teachers need
to make use of the web technologies actively and effectively. Teachers’ development on web usage
skills for teaching purposes should start from the pre‐service period. From this aspect, besides the
content knowledge and pedagogical formation, teachers should have technological, especially Internet
knowledge before graduating and should be able to integrate these knowledge areas into their lessons.
Especially nowadays, considering the fact that pre‐service and in‐service education is provided
through the Internet, teachers’ web pedagogical content knowledge increases in importance. In
consideration of the literature, it was seen that studies on web pedagogical content knowledge
increased day by day. However, there has been no comparison between departments which aim to
teach languages. Therefore, it was considered that research on language teaching departments’ web
pedagogical content knowledge would contribute to the field. In this study, web pedagogical content
knowledge of students who studied Turkish and English Language Teaching at Sakarya University’s
Faculty of Education in Turkey during the 2014‐2015 Spring semester was examined in terms of several
variables.

Keywords

Technology, Web pedagogical content knowledge, Web pedagogical content knowledge scale

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