The Future of Education

The recent studies have emphasized that e-books support literacy learning, interdependence and motivation in language teaching [1,2,3,4]. Since the e-books offer a lot of pedagogical benefits both to learners and teachers, student teachers’awareness on the use of e-books must be raised in Initial Teacher Education ( ITE) in order to enhance the integration of their ICT literacy into their teaching skills. The model presented in this paper has been developed for the student teachers at the ELT Department of Mersin University. The Literature and Language Teaching Course given to third year students has focused on planning lessons based on e-books. After the whole-class discussion on the use of e-books in language classrooms, the student teachers have been grouped and asked to choose and download an e-story suitable for the age and level of their target group. The groups, next, have developed activities for the e-story and exchanged their views and experiences with their classmates and instructor. As the further step,they have presented sample lessons depicting the way they have followed while using e-stories as teaching resources.They have reflected on their performance and also given feedback to the others. At the end, they have had a valuable teaching experience and a digital resource based on the end products of the course.

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