Turkish Language Teacher Metaphors of Pre-service Teachers According to Their Perceptions - Turkish language teacher concepts through metaphors

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Study examines pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the Turkish language teacher concept through metaphors. Participants include first- and fourth-year undergraduate students from Turkish Language Teaching (Faculty of Education, Ağrı province) and graduate students during the 2018–2019 academic years. Data are collected using open-ended questions and metaphor preference levels are analyzed via frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation, with t tests for grade differences. Results show both positive and negative metaphors.

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Introduction

Teacher concept and qualified workforce

Concept of metaphor in language and education

Study design and data analysis

Findings on positive and negative metaphors

Advances in Language and Literary Studies ISSN: 2203-4714 [www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au) | Turkish Language Teacher Metaphors of Pre-service Teachers According to Their Perceptions
Mehmet Fatih Özcan*
Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education, AGRI IBRAHIM CECEN University, Turkey Corresponding Author: Mehmet Fatih Özcan, [E-mail: mefo3@hotmail.com](E-mail: mefo3@hotmail.com) | | | --- | --- | | ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to determine the pre-service teachers' perceptions related to teacher / | | Article history | | | Received: September 15, 2019 | Turkish language teacher concepts through metaphors. The study group consists of first and fourth | | Accepted: November 17, 2019 | grade undergraduate students from Department of Turkish Language Teaching of Faculty of | | Published: December 31, 2019
Volume: 10 Issue: 6 | Education of Ağrı province and graduate students from Turkish Language Education in 2018-2019 academic years. The research data was collected with open ended questions. With the questions as | | Advance access: December, 2019 | “How do you think the concept teacher can be expressed with different words? Why?” related to teacher concept,“What is the first reaction and the first sentence you hear from the people when you tell them that you are a Turkish language teacher/study in the department of Turkish Language | | | | | Conflicts of interest: None | Teaching?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, and “What are the three words that you | | Funding: None | think of when Turkish language teacher is mentioned?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, preferability levels of the metaphors were determined with frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation; and t test was used to determine the difference between | | | | | Key words:
Teacher,
Turkish Language Teacher, Metaphor | gender and views of the participants according to grade. According to the results obtained from the study, it was determined that the participants presented both positive and negative metaphors related to the questions. While a high number of positive metaphors such as educator / instructor, leading / guide / leader and father / mother, compassion, laborer, friend, honest, self-sacrificing, hope are produced, negative metaphors such as Hope killer / hangman and expropriator are also produced. Of the metaphors produced about the Turkish language teacher, the first four came out as silver-tongued/ calligraphic, grammar, book and poet / poem. In addition, metaphors like Unemployed and With Poor Turkish/Short-tempered were also produced. | INTRODUCTION The concept of qualified work force and teacher emerges asthe most basic concept of both the 21st century and education systems. In determining educational policies, the place of the teaching profession in this context should not be ignored. In the comparison of international education systems, it has been determined that the success rates of the countries with qualified teachers are higher than the others. The active interaction of teachers with all elements contributes directly to student success while determining the quality of education and society. Balcı (1991) defined the concept of “teacher”mentioned above as “Teacher is a learning tool, examiner, maintains discipline, advocate of middle class morality and proxy. The teacher is the trusted person, the substitute parent, student advisor, colleague and community participant. These are the images given to the teacher in relation to his profession.”; Özden (2002) defined it as “The architects of a country’s future are teachers. Teachers are the one who trains engineers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, soldiers, police, chauffeur, in short, those who serve in all parts of the society. Teachers play very important roles in the fates of countries.”; Çelikten (2006) defined it as “The quality of the new generations will undoubtedly be identical with

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What is the aim of the study?

The study aims to determine pre-service teachers’ perceptions related to the Turkish language teacher concept through metaphors.

Who participated in the research?

The study group consists of first- and fourth-year undergraduate students from the Department of Turkish Language Teaching (Ağrı province) and graduate students in the 2018–2019 academic years.

How were metaphor data analyzed?

Metaphor preference levels were determined using frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation, and t tests were used to examine differences by grade.

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