ENHANCING NON-NATIVE PROSPECTIVE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ COMPETENCY IN SENTENTIAL STRESS PATTERNS IN ENGLISH

Year 2013, Volume: 34 Issue: 34, 183 - 195, 01.06.2013

Recep Şahin Arslan

https://doi.org/10.9779/PUJE625

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate a group of prospective English language teachers’ competency as to the application of sentential stress patterns in English prior to their graduation from an English Language Teaching (ELT) department in the Turkish context. In the study fifty senior pre-service students completed a self-perception questionnaire, and nine of them received training on sentential stress patterns in English for four weeks. Pre-study self-perception questionnaire results showed that prospective English language teachers in this particular context needed to learn more about sentential stress patterns in English. The experimental study which was conducted to this end with a group of nine pre-service teachers of English proved positive contributions to their competency in sentential stress patterns in English.

Keywords

Prospective teachers of English, English language teaching, sentential stress in English

ANA DİLİ İNGİLİZCE OLMAYAN İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ İNGİLİZCE CÜMLELERDE VURGULAMA YETERLİKLERİNİN GELİŞTİRİLMESİ

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Türkiye’de bir üniversitesinin İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Bölümü son sınıf öğrencilerinin İngilizcede cümle vurgulama konusunda ki yeterliklerini incelemek ve uygulamalı bir çalışma ile bu yeterliklerini geliştirmek hedeflenmiştir. Bu amaçla çalışma öncesi 50 son sınıf öğretmen adayına İngilizcede telaffuz ile ilgili geçmiş bilgilerini ve cümlede vurgulama yeterliklerini ölçen bir anket uygulanmıştır. Ayrıca bu anketi yanıtlayan elli katılımcıdan dokuz öğretmen adayı ile İngilizce cümlelerde vurgu konusunda uygulamaya dayalı dört haftalık bir çalışma yapılmıştır. Bu uygulamalı çalışma sonrası elde edilen nicel ve nitel veri sonuçları İngilizce öğretmen adaylarının İngilizce cümlelerde vurgulama yeterliklerinde olumlu bir gelişme gösterdiklerini ortaya koymuştur.

Keywords

İngiliz dili eğitimi, İngilizce öğretmen adayları, İngilizce cümlede vurgu

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