A Case Study on Active Learning Approach in Teacher Education

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of the course through the active learning approach designed for the “Comprehension Techniques 2: Teaching of Listening” course in the Turkish Language Teaching curriculum in the faculty of education according to the views of pre-service teachers. This study is a case study which is one of the qualitative research designs. Semi-structured interview protocol is used as the data collection tool. The data were analyzed using content analysis method, one of the qualitative data analysis methods. 32 pre-service teachers have participated in the study on a voluntary basis. Majority of the pre-service teachers (f=34) stated that they learnt the subject matter in the lesson through learning by experiencing, reading, discussing, doing research and with out-of-class activities. However, after analyzing the views of some pre-service teachers (f=20), it is seen that learning has taken place through listening, observing, writing, that is, with the practices in which the learner is passive. Similarly, majority of the pre-service teachers (f=53) stated that what they have learnt is permanent and they can use it in their daily or professional life while some of them (f=8) stated that they believe what they have learnt at the end of this lesson is not permanent and they won’t be using it