Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The Science and Education at the Beginning of the 21st Century in Turkey,, Strelova,Olga,Hristov,I.,Mortan K.,Peeva,P.,Sam,R.,N.,Galay,E. Atasoy,E., Editör, . St Kliment Ohridski University Press, Sofija, ss.57-70, 2013
This study aims
to determine whether Turkish EFL student teachers (STs) studying at Uludağ
University can contextualise their lessons during School Experience (SE) and to
what extent they can use various techniques at the primary education level.
Although STs
were expected to use six different techniques of contextualisation, namely
personalisation, individualisation, localisation, modernisation, the use of
immediate context and formulated information, they were able to use ‘Personalisation’ as the only main technique
of contextualisation, and even then in a limited way. In an attempt to use personalisation, they
tended to use audio-visual materials and stories, and to a certain extent, they
could elicit information from the learners.
These results
show that STs need to go through a training programme in which they actively
practise contextualisation techniques using which they can present
language topics in a meaningful way and thus relate the English language to the
learners’ lives.