摘要:AbstractThe objective of the study is to determine teacher candidates’ attitudes towards spelling and punctuation used in social communication tools (facebook, twitter, gmail/hotmail, whatsapp, hangouts, vb.). The study group was conducted with teacher candidates of spring semester of academic year 2013-2014 from different departments of Sakarya University Educational Faculty; Turkish Language Teaching, Science Teaching, Primary Teaching, English Language Teaching, Pre-School Teaching, Computer and Instructional Technology Teaching, Mathematics Teaching, and Social Studies Teaching. The participants of this study consisted of a mixture of 334 female and 118 male; a total of 452 teacher candidates. As a result of the study, it is seen that the attitudes of the teacher candidates towards the use of the social communication tools has a significant difference in accordance with their gender and department.
关键词:teacher candidates;social communication tools;attitude;spelling and punctuation