International Journal of Languages' Education and Teaching

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the perception of pre-service teacher regarding the concepts of e-book through the use of metaphors. The study population consists of total 110 2nd and 3th grade classroom pre-service teachers attending at state University, Education Faculty during the 2017-2018 academic year. The study sample included 110 pre-service teachers in total whom were from the preschool education department, the classroom teaching department social sciences education department. In order to reveal the perceptions of the pre-service teachers about the determined concepts, a form consisting of one open ended question was used as data collection tool. In this study, participants were asked to fill the blanks such as “e-book looks like … because …”. Data collected from pre-service teachers were analyzed through content analysis method. After the expert opinions, the metaphors and categories used in the study were discussed in the non-overlapping metaphors and the final form was given. It has been revealed that the pre-service teachers produce positive metaphors in terms of multimodal, information storage, accessibility, portability, and economic efficiency, and that they produce negative metaphors in terms of remove the reading process from its nature and virtualize it and eye health. Pre-service teachers are classified in multimodal categories such as magazines, books, social media, trees, in information store categories such as library, book, digital library, teacher, in accessibility category car, phone, in remove the reading process from its nature and virtualize it categories such as artificial intelligence, computer, in the mobility category footed newspaper, pocket book, in economy category bicycle, in eye health category tablet.