ANALYSIS ON THE SELF-AWARENESS THAT IS DERIVED FROM VERBAL LECTURE ACTIVITIES IN MICRO-TEACHING PRACTICES

This research aims the qualitative evaluation of the self-awareness of the prospective teachers in the faculty of education, that is derived from micro-teaching practices in order to improve skills for verbal lecture. The problem title of the research is ‘How is the qualitative outlook of the self-awareness that is derived from micro-teaching practices in verbal lecture activities?’. This research has been carried out according to content analysis method and depending on qualitative research. And the pattern of the research has been specified as situation determination. First grade students in the departments of Mathematics and Information Technologies in Mehmet Akif ERSOY University (MAKU) Faculty of Education constitute the study group. The research has been confined to 50 participants, 27 from Mathematics and 23 from Information Technologies departments. The participants were lectured in self-evaluation for three weeks in the beginning of the practice. After being informed about the study, pursuant to prepared speech, every participant was given ten minutes and was asked to perform a prepared speech in ten minutes. The activity was video recorded by the instructor of the lecture. These recordings were watched by the class right after the presentation. Then, the students were asked to write their thoughts about the presentations on A4 size papers. The written data collected only by the presenters for ten weeks were coded in the contexts of conversational maxim, pronunciation and body language by applying content analysis by two researchers, and then categorized under certain titles. According to the findings collected from the research, it has been concluded that the students had enough knowledge in terms of quantity, accurate knowledge in terms of quality, integrity in topic in terms of relation, stress and intonation in terms of pronunciation, eye contact, gesture and facial expression and bodily movements in terms of body language. On the other hand, the level of their anxiety, the level of their preparedness and their awareness and concernments of anxiety have been observed.