Prospective English Language Teachers’ Views on Literature- Oriented Courses at Akdeniz University's ELT Department

AbstractTurkish Higher Education Council's recent changes in the curricula of Faculties of Education mandated Contextualized Grammar I and II courses for English Language Teacher Education programs in support of preparing teachers to teach in a rather constructivist and communicative language learning environments. This present study aimed at understanding pre-service English language teachers’ previous grammar learning experiences in terms of how grammar was studied/taught in their classrooms and their opinions on the content and delivery of Contextualized Grammar I course in comparison to their previous grammar learning experiences. Ninety-eight first year students who were taking Contextualized Grammar I course participated in this study with their written responses answering the two research questions mentioned above