%0 Journal Article
%T Developing Communication Skills of EFL Teacher Trainees
%A Kadriye Dilek Akp£¿nar
%J Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
%D 2009
%I Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
%X Higher Education Council of Turkey has added a one term course named as ¡°Effective Communication Skills¡± to the curriculum since 2006 in Foreign Language Education Departments because of the crucial importance of communication in the information society. In order to test the effectiveness of this course, a research project was developed by looking at the pre-and post course interviews conducted with first year teacher trainees about communication skills compared with the fourth year students¡¯ ideas who did not take the course. This paper describes both the significance of effective communication skills and the benefits of the course for developing teacher trainees¡¯ effective communication skills. The implementations and suggestions for teacher education has also been discussed.
%K Effective communication skills
%K teacher efficacy
%U http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%205/No.1/kdakpinar.pdf