Teachers' awareness and actual practices of 21st century learning and innovation skills

This thesis aims to examine Turkish teachers of English language awareness, motivation, organization, and classroom practices in terms of 21st century learning and innovation skills which are communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills. For this purpose, 26 Turkish teachers of English language in Fırat University School of Foreign Languages were chosen as the participants. With the aim of manage the research study, mixed method descriptive case study was employed. In order to collect data, a questionnaire (self-report instrument) and interviews were implemented. Convenience sampling was employed in the stage of participant selection. Moreover, the collected quantitative data was analysed on SPSS version 2.00 and qualitative data was analysed with reference to interview questions. At the result chapter, the analysis were defined and discussed in order to be a source and a different perspective for the further researches. The findings of the study presented that Turkish teachers of English Language in the context of the study were lack of theoretical and conceptual knowledge regarding 21st century learning and innovation skills, though they were motivated to promote them in the classrooms.