Picture Storybooks with Basic Literary Elements: ELT Prospective Teachers’ Self-Assessments of their Books
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The study investigated the quality of 101 3rd year ELT prospective teachers’ picture story books (totally 20) for EFL children via their self-assessments. The prospective teachers were given a 23-item five-point likert scale questionnaire which revealed .933 Cronbach alpha score to do their self-assessments for the books. The items of the questionnaire refer to two categories involving basic literary elements and the particular criteria for teaching young learners. In addition, the results of the authors’ assessments were compared to the experts’ assessments and elaborated through the results’ of the authors’ semi-structured interviews. The overall results revealed that they believed their books were successful particularly in terms of having effective icono-texts, didactive themes, well-design cover pages, comprehensible titles, familiar characters, and the scripts compatible with the curriculum. When compared to the authors’ assessments, it was seen that some items were overrated or underrated by the experts.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Eğitim Üzerine Çalışmalar
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
1 Mayıs 2020
Gönderilme Tarihi
27 Haziran 2019
Kabul Tarihi
3 Nisan 2020
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2020 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 2