AN EVALUATION OF THE 9TH GRADE ENGLISH PROGRAM IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING ICT LITERACY

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The unprecedented rate of technological developments in the 21st century has necessitated a change in every area of daily life including the way we work, learn and communicate. The rapid transformation in daily life has required people to be equipped with certain set off skills which are called as 21st century skills. Information and communication technologies (ICT) literacy, being one of these skills, has gained the significant attention of not only the employers but also the educators. Since the main aim of education is to prepare individuals to the future by providing the necessary conditions, curricula have been revised by the Turkish Ministry of Education in 2017 in order to meet the needs of 21st century. The purpose of this study is to analyze the revised 9th grade English program in order to detect to what extent the program serves the aim of developing learners’ ICT literacy as one of the components of 21st century skills. The outcome statements and the coursebook activities have been analyzed within the scope of the study. The findings indicate that from 78 outcome statements only 6 (7%) outcome statements directly emphasize at developing learners’ ICT literacy. Significant pedagogical implications are presented based on the findings of the study.