Knowledge levels of primary school teachers regarding the concept of
early literacy
Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the level of knowledge of primary
school teachers about the concept of early literacy, to determine
whether this knowledge level differs according to the teachers’ gender,
the type of school they graduated from and their professional seniority;
to reveal the importance of early literacy skills for 1st-grade students
of primary school and how to increase teachers’ early literacy knowledge
levels. This research is a descriptive study in the nature of a survey
model. In this research, where quantitative and qualitative research
techniques are used together, simultaneous transformational mixed method
was used in data collection and analysis. The study group of the
research consists of 49 primary school teachers who teach the 1st-grade.
Teachers were determined through simple random sampling. The analysis of
the qualitative data was conducted via content analysis while the
quantitative data were analyzed via independent group t-test and ANOVA
in this study for which data collection was provided via a
semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers.