Analyzing pre-service teachers' skill-level on summarizing informative texts

Abstract

Since learners who can summarize a text learn informative texts better and also they can remember them, this skill should be taught in schools. In this process, teachers have a great responsibility. For this reason, in this study, these questions are wanted to be answered: what is the summarizing level of pre-service teachers?, Are there any differences between pre-service teachers on summarizing skill-level in terms of their disciplines, genders, reading habits and subscribing a consist magazine? The universe of this study was occupied by the learners who were attending "Pedagogical Formation Course" Program in Mugla Sitki Kocman University in Turkey in 2014. In this study, 'Maslow's Needs Hierarchy' (Sahin, 1983, p. 3-7) was selected as a natural and informative text for the learners in order that the learners summarize it. As a result of the data gathered from the study, it was seen that the summarizing skill-level of the pre-service teachers was in the middle level. That result was a promising finding for the pre-service teachers to help the learners on summarizing skill. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.