Comparing the Internet Usage of Pre-service Language Teachers With Teachers of Other Subjects: Distance Learning vs. On-Campus Learning

FIRAT M., SERPİL H.

PROFILE-ISSUES IN TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, cilt.19, sa.1, ss.55-72, 2017 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 19 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.15446/profile.v19n1.54184
  • Dergi Adı: PROFILE-ISSUES IN TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.55-72
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Internet in education, open and distance education, pre-service language teachers, PERCEPTIONS, EDUCATION
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Teachers play a crucial role in helping individuals gain adequate Internet competency, which requires teachers themselves to be Internet-literate. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Internet use of the distance and on-campus pre-service teachers of language and other disciplines by multiple parameters. A total of 789 teacher candidates participated in this survey. The findings show that the candidate teachers in on-campus and distance-learning programs have an average level of Internet usage adequacy and that the younger candidate teachers and those in higher classes use the Internet more frequently. Pre-service foreign language teachers have been found to have a moderate level of Internet usage frequency, adequacy and technology ownership in comparison with the other preservice teacher groups.