What Should an Ideal Pre-Service Mother-Tongue Teacher Look Like?

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: Special Issue 2 - Education and Psychology Research in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic, 588 - 601, 25.10.2023

Ahmet Karadoğan , Fetullah Uyumaz , Abdullatif Uyumaz

https://doi.org/10.54535/rep.1362516

Abstract

In this study, it was tried to determine the profile of an ideal pre-service mother tongue teacher according to the views of Turkish mother tongue teachers and pre-service teachers. The data of the study were collected through a semi-structured "Characteristics of a Good Pre-Service Mother Tongue Teacher Form" created by the researchers. In this form, 5 mother tongue teachers working in Erzurum province of Turkey and 10 pre-service mother tongue teachers studying at Atatürk University Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education, Turkish Language Teaching undergraduate program were asked what an ideal pre-service mother tongue teacher should be like. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. Phenomenology was chosen in this study to set a standard for what a pre-service mother tongue teacher should be like. According to the results obtained from the findings of the study, a good pre-service mother tongue teacher should be especially good in the field of communication skills. Suggestions were made together with the other results.

Keywords

Ideal pre-service mother tongue teacher, Pre-service teacher, Teacher profile

Ethical Statement

The approval of the ethics committee regarding the compliance of the research with the ethical rules was obtained from the Ataturk University Legal Consultancy Office with the decision dated 19/03/2021 and numbered 29202147-300-E.2100068931. Participants participated in this study voluntarily. A form was signed by the participants stating that they participated in the study.

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