Turkish efl pre-service teachers' attitudes toward and reflections on digital game enhanced practice

Educational technologies have started to be integrated in educational activities in an increasing rate with recent technological advancements. Digital games, being one of these materials, are thought to be effective in langauge learning and teaching field as much as they are in other educational fields. Previous research has shown that pre-service teachers generally have positive attitudes towards digital games, and the ones who have negative attitudes cannot think of any use since they have not encountered any specific example of application. In this respect, Sykes and Reinhardt (2012) claimed five possible key elements in line with game elements and second language learning, which are goals, interaction, feedback, context and motivation. Starting from this point of view, this study aims; first, familiarizing Turkish Pre-service EFL Teachers who were selected based on their attitudes on digital games as high, medium and low attitude with digital game enhanced language learning activities and collect their reflections for the digital game enhanced language learning application they experienced. Also their insights for positive and negative aspects of these activities were also aimed to be studied. In addition, this study also aims investigating participants' intentions for using digital game enhanced language learning activities in their future teaching practices.