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Examining Preservice EFL Teachers' TPACK Competencies in Turkey

Ekrem, Solak; Recep, Çakir

Journal of Educators Online, v11 n2 spec iss May 2014

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This journal aimed to study TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) competency of preservice English teachers and to determine whether any significant differences in terms of gender and academic achievement or not. This journal proposed the theory of TPACK by Mishra & Koehler (2009) clearly. Moreover, it stated some previous research about TPACK.

137 participants of the research were senior preservice English teachers who were attending at an English Language Teaching Department of a state university. The survey method was used in this research to collect data about the TPACK competency level of preservice English teachers. TPACK Competency Survey which was developed by Archambault and Crippen (2009) was used. The descriptive statistic was used to analyze the data of survey.

The finding showed that the gender differences towards TPACK, males’ technological knowledge was higher than females, however, females were better than males in Pedagogical Knowledge. In addition, there were no significant differences between TPACK mean and academic achievement. This journal was limited to the survey in collecting the data. Therefore, the interview and another instrument could be used to provide more reliable data.