Practices and Perspectives of Teacher Trainees upon Online Language Education Programme

Abstract

Instructional technologies have been used extensively after the spread of COVID19. Council of Higher Education in Turkey  closed  down all the universities and embarked on online education by issuing a   statement that all universities  were free  to choose  the platform they wished to use.  This study aims at discovering how online language teacher education  programmes yielded  emerging patterns and how  teacher trainees’ perspectives  were in relation with these online  language teacher education  programmes. To reach this aim, 275 teacher trainees at the Department of English Language Teaching participated in the study and semi-structured interviews  were held with them. This discussion illuminates critical issues and attitudes of teacher trainees along with the challenges unique to programmes as a future research agenda.