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    Assessment of the curriculum of Turkish language teaching in the 2nd grade of primary education in terms of critical thinking skills
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    This study aims to assess Turkish language teaching program of the 2nd grade primary school in terms of critical thinking skills. The document examination method, a qualitative research method, was employed in the research. Giving information on the general structure, and content of Turkish language teaching program (6-7-8), gains there from were reviewed. These gains were classified under the titles of critical thinking skills. In the reviewed Turkish language teaching program (6-7-8), 158 gains among the total of 228 under the fields of reading, listening/following, speaking, writing, learning, and grammar were found to be intended for critical thinking skills. It was further ascertained that, these gains were intended more for application and analyzing skills than those of critical thinking. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.
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    Opinions of teacher candidates on elementary literacy teaching
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    This study was performed in order to determine the opinions of 4th Grade Classroom Teaching Department students on elementary literacy teaching. Screening model was used in the study. Data were collected by the questionnaire form developed by Kola (2010). Having the answers to open-ended questions reviewed via content analysis method, and having the data from field --- assessed, answers from students were thereby collected under different themes. Frequency (f) and percentage (P) values of all those data were assessed. As a result of the research, it was ascertained that, most of the teacher candidates expressed opinions on elementary literacy teaching to be practical, however it was further ascertained they were concerned particularly due to being inexperienced in elementary literacy teaching, and they would like to teach 1st and 3rd grades the most in their first year in teaching. Besides, teacher candidates stated that, specializing in the main field would on one hand be beneficial both in rendering better education to students, and better skills to teacher candidates, but on the other hand this might cause difficulties for teachers to go down to the level of students. Teacher candidates want to become specialized mostly in Maths and Turkish courses. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.
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    The concept of Media Literacy and an evaluation on the necessity of media literacy education in creating awareness towards Turkish language
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    In this study, the concept of Media Literacy has been elaborated. It is a new topic in the area of investigation in Turkey. Also, the need of it for developing awareness for Turkish language has been explained. The purpose to develop awareness for the true usage of the Turkish language in the Mass Media where we often witness misusages. The possible remedies are mentioned. In the research, the investigation of documents method has been used which is one of the qualitative research methods. The literature search has been done through local and global sources. Primarily, the Media Literacy concept has been elucidated, then, the global and local (in Turkey) practices of Media Literacy has been mentioned. The issue of How should be the education of Media Literacy? has been elaborated and the importance of Media Literacy for developing awareness towards Turkish language has been emphasized. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.