A STUDY ON PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS


Girgin M. C.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.42, sa.42, ss.186-193, 2012 (SSCI) identifier identifier

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The purpose of this study; it is investigated whether teacher candidates' views regarding the phonological awareness (PA) differ according to their universities, class-grades and gender, whether there is a correlation between teacher candidates' views and avarege mean scores of academic achivement, ages. As a result, it was investigated whether teacher candidates' views regarding PA differ according to their universities, class-grades and gender. Significance levels were determined as respectively p=.001, p=.037 and p=.000. Besides, female PA's score was higher than male PA's score. There was a low corelation between the views of teacher candidates regarding PA and avarege mean scores of academic achivement (r=0,14; p<.05). But however there was not a correlation between the views of teacher candidates regarding PA and ages.