Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Attitudes towards ‘Language Acquisition Courses’

Nalan Kızıltan

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This study discusses the attitudes of pre-service English language teachers towards „Language Acquisition Courses‟ in English Language Teacher Education Programs. The data have been collected through a developed questionnaire of 20 questions given to 324 students in the department of Pre-service English Language Teacher Education at Ondokuz Mayıs University. SPSS has been used for the evaluation of the data. The results indicate that the pre-service teachers of English believe in the importance of language acquisition courses for their career. However, they think that they need some preliminary courses on linguistics before they take “Language Acquisition Coursesâ€. Otherwise, since they may not have any background knowledge in linguistics, they may have some problems in the comprehension competence.

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