Erdemir, Nihan; Isparta University of Applied Sciences, School of Foreign Languages; Yangın Ekşi, Gonca; GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, GAZİ EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ
Description:
Educational technology has a significant rolein language learning; therefore, strengthening student teacher’s digitalliteracy has recently become one of the main requirements in teacher educationprograms. This study aims to explore student teachers’ experience about using ‘Edmodo’and a flipped classroom model. The course, Teaching English to Young Learners,which is one of the compulsory courses of the English Language Teaching (ELT)program, was flipped for ten weeks in a class of 31 student teachers at a stateuniversity in Turkey. A reflection questionnaire with close- and open-endedquestions was given to the student teachers to understand their perceptions ofEdmodo and flipped classroom. The findings showed that Edmodo and flippedclassroom are good at training student teachers to increase their digitalliteracy, working collaboratively and controlling their own learning process.The paper also highlighted that student teachers intended to use them as ateacher in the future though this was the first experience for most of them. Inthe light of the findings, teacher educators might be suggested to enhancestudent teachers’ digital literacy first by allowing them to experiencemultimedia tools in teacher education programs.