Teacher Candidates’ Attitudes towards Spelling and Punctuation Used in Social Communication Tools

The objective of the study is to determine teacher candidates’ attitudes towards spelling and punctuation used in social communication tools (facebook, twitter, gmail/hotmail, whatsapp, hangouts, vb.). The study group was conducted with teacher candidates of spring semester of academic year 2013-2014 from different departments of Sakarya University Educational Faculty; Turkish Language Teaching, Science Teaching, Primary Teaching, English Language Teaching, Pre-School Teaching, Computer and Instructional Technology Teaching, Mathematics Teaching, and Social Studies Teaching. The participants of this study consisted of a mixture of 334 female and 118 male; a total of 452 teacher candidates. As a result of the study, it is seen that the attitudes of the teacher candidates towards the use of the social communication tools has a significant difference in accordance with their gender and department.