An investigation on ELT teacher candidates' assessment literacy

This study aims to investigate the perceptions of candidate English teachers on the utilization of assessment strategies in primary/junior settings. This study was carried out with 30 pre-service English language teachers in Mersin University and lasted for 3 three days. Firstly, the questionnaire, which consisted of 3 close-ended and 5 open-ended questions was distributed to 30 candidate English teachers. The first question aimed to elicit background information about the participants of the study. For the next step, open-ended questions were asked to 5 candidate English language teachers in the interview format. In the study, it was seen that candidate English teachers give more importance to Observation Techniques than any of other assessment strategies.