@article{2017,title={AN INVESTIGATION OF PROSPECTIVE TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT LEVELS IN TERMS OF SEVERAL VARIABLES},abstractNode={The aim of this study is to determine prospective Turkish teachers’ digital empowerment level. The population of the study includes first graders of classroom teaching departments enrolled at Fırat, Erciyes, Cumhuriyet and Hacı Bektaş Veli Universities. All prospective teachers were included in the study. Digital Empowerment Scale developed by Akkoyunlu, Yılmaz Soylu and Çağlar (2010) was used as the data collection tool in the study. The seven-point scale includes 45 items and four subscales named awareness (9 items), motivation (10 items), technical access (10 items) and empowerment (16 items). The scale was administered on 159 students, 114 females and 45 males. Frequency, independent groups t test, One way Anova, Kruskal Wallis H and Levene tests were used to analyze the data. Study results revealed that prospective Turkish teachers’ digital empowerment level was at middle level both in scale as a whole and in all subscales. No statistically significant differences were found in terms of gender variable. Prospective Turkish teachers’ opinions on their digital empowerment differed significantly in terms of university variable. Prospective Turkish teachers at Cumhuriyet University had the lowest empowerment level while those who enrolled at Erciyes University had the highest level of them all.},author={Mehmet Nuri GÖMLEKSİZ-& Emine Kübra PULLU},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}