A Study on Phonological Awareness of Pre-Service Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this study; it is investigated whether teacher candidates' views regarding the phonological awareness (PA) differ according to their universities, class-grades and gender, whether there is a correlation between teacher candidates' views and avarege mean scores of academic achivement, ages. As a result, it was investigated whether teacher candidates' views regarding PA differ according to their universities, class-grades and gender. Significance levels were determined as respectively p=.001, p=.037 and p=.000. Besides, female PA's score was higher than male PA's score. There was a low corelation between the views of teacher candidates regarding PA and avarege mean scores of academic achivement (r=0,14; p<.05). But however there was not a correlation between the views of teacher candidates regarding PA and ages.