Abstract
The purpose of this research is to compensate the lack of research regarding the above-mentioned fields, and literature in particular, and to take a leading part to open the path for new studies regarding the subject. With regards to this purpose, it is planned to measure the attitude of high school students towards literature via an objective tool and thus, Attitude Scale Towards Literature (ASTL) was generated. The scale, which was implemented on 739 high school students during 2019-2020, consists of total 33 statements of which 20 are positive and 13 are negative. Respondents of the survey are students of three different schools and are from 4 different grade levels, namely 9, 10, 11 and 12th grades. With the aim of determining the factor pattern of the scale, principle components analysis was preferred as method of factoring and varimax was chosen as the spinning method. In accordance with these data, explanatory factor analysis was carried out on the scale and it was determined that the scale has a structure of two factors. The first factor is Attitude Towards Personal Development; and the second factor is Attitude Towards Internalization of Literature. Keywords: Literature, high school students, validity, reliability
Highlights
Since early ages, many definitions and qualitative interpretations from different aspects have been provided for art in general and literature in particular
Prior to the implementation of explanatory factor analysis which was to be conducted in order to determine the structural validity of the generated scale, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett Test of Spherecity were carried out in order to test if the sample size was convenient for factoring
Any study on the concept of literature has not been encountered during the analysis of educational science literature
Summary
Many definitions and qualitative interpretations from different aspects have been provided for art in general and literature in particular. Whereas, according to Danto (2013:16) there is nothing like art to uplift the soul. “losing the battle” and “indispensability” appears like a paradox, this situation sums up how art is formed. Art has been holding its place in human’s life as a game (Okay, 1990: 17), in which people look for the ideal and flawless beauty for ages. Okay (1990:15) advocates that the subject of art is aesthetics. Literature is a branch (Macit, Soldan: 2004: 8) of fine arts and there is an indispensable relationship between literature and language (Belge, 2019: 198)
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