Development of Teacher Candidates’ Text-Making Skills in Multimodal Literacy Framework

Abstract

The aim of this research is to improve multimodal literacy skills of Turkish language teacher candidates. For this purpose, first of all ; the existing conditions of teacher candidates about multimodal literacy have been determined. An implementation process is designed based upon the identified shortcomings. In this study, which is designed with mixed method, semi- structured interview form, semi- structured observation form, diary and teacher candidates' products are collecting data collection tools. Participants have been constituted among Turkish language teacher caditates. Descriptive analysis and content analysis techniques were utilized in the analysis of the data. At the beginning of the research period, multimodal literacy skills of teacher candidates were found low degree. Teacher candidates are determined to have significant deficiencies in integrating technological, pedagogical and field knowledge. On the other hand, as a result of the research, it has been seen that the Turkish language teacher candidates show the development which can produce multimodal texts.

Keywords: Turkish language teaching, multimodal literacy, web 2.0 tools, teacher education, 21st century literacy.