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ERIC Number: EJ1415385
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 31
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ISSN: ISSN-2473-2826
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Unravelling Pre-Service EFL Teachers' WPACK and CDL Levels for Their Professional Development through Technology Acceptance
Rabia Ölmez; Nurdan Kavakli Ulutas
Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, v7 n2 2023
Training pre-service teachers has become more important with the significant changes in the utilization of educational technologies in the 21st century. That said, educators are now expected to be digitally literate, capable of accepting and using new technologies by employing skills in the use of web tools. Accordingly, this quantitatively driven research investigates pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' levels of web-pedagogical content knowledge (WPACK) together with critical digital literacy (CDL) in order to address technology acceptance in teaching and learning practices. In doing so, 94 pre-service EFL teachers are recruited from the department of English Language Teaching at a state university in Türkiye during 2020-21 academic year. The results have showed that pre-service EFL teachers' levels of CDL are moderately high where their levels of WPACK are even higher, albeit with no significance regarding gender, age and personal computer ownership. To note, pedagogical implications and further recommendations are listed to better understand their technology adoption.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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