Abstract
Fairy tale is one of the most important genres in literature which reflects childish sensitivity, feeds child’s soul, enriches his/her imagination and prepares him/her for the future. Emerging as product of oral literature, fairy tales were used as an instrument of training in the past and they still have the same function today. Educators think that fairy tale is important for contribution to children’s linguistic skills, mental and spiritual development. It enriches the imaginative world of the child, feeds spirit of the children and prepares them for the future. Fairy tales are also important in that they indicate the strength of language and contribute to development of artistic language development of the child. This study was conducted during 2013-2014 academic year in order to find out the attitudes of secondary school students towards fairy tales. The survey questions and attitude scale prepared by the author were administered to 387 students in four secondary schools predetermined in Kars and AÄŸrı provinces. The students studying at Grades 5, 7 and 8 in secondary school are sampling groups of the study. With this study, the students’ attitude for the effect of fairy tales on linguistic skills, vocabulary, Turkish course and human behaviors was discovered. In addition, it was also studied whether or not gender and classroom factors are important in respect to students' attitude towards fairy tales. The data of the study were analyzed by use of SPSS statistic program. The study has indicated that fairy tales create an affirmative effect on students. Key words: Fairy tales, children literature, education, folk literature education, legend, Turkish education.
Highlights
Derived from Arabic word “mesel”, the word masal is a story which teaches a lesson while containing a moral lesson in itself (Elçin, 2013: 368)
The results indicate that the students have affirmative opinion about effect of fairy tales on success in and covering Turkish course
I like completing the other half of the fairy tales after one half is told by the teacher) about effect of fairy tales on success in and covering Turkish course are different in respect to their grades and are significant statistically
Summary
Derived from Arabic word “mesel”, the word masal (fairy tale) is a story which teaches a lesson while containing a moral lesson in itself (Elçin, 2013: 368). At the end of the fairy tales, moral advice is given in a simple style to teach lesson of virtue to the audience. Telling fairy tales has become tradition in the past as it educates and entertains people. Emerging as products of verbal literature, fairy tales were told to educate children, to entertain them, to make them joyful and teach them moral values in the past (Iranmanesh, 2013:128). Fairy tales and similar works of arts told in verbal customs are compiled and filtered through pedagogical filters They are employed as materials for helping the emotional and educational development of children at educational institutes (Souza and Bernardıno, 2013:235). Being very important in training of children, fairy tales must be didactic, entertaining and adequate in respect to language and style as well as content. The attitudes of children from grades 5, 7 and 8 in secondary schools towards fairy tales are examined by means of various variables
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