Öğrencilerin İngilizce Başarıları ile Öz Düzenleme ve Bireysel Yenilikçilik Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

In this study, the relationship between the Anatolian High School students’ self-regulation and personal innovativeness levels, and their success in learning English has been analyzed. Concerning the research of the learning process with prior arrangement, preliminary test - final test control grouped pattern of the experimental method has been used. As for the research of their personal innovativeness levels, scanning method has been used. Students’ success in the English class and their attitude towards the English class form the independent variables of the research. And the independent variable, the influence of which is searched for over those dependent variables, is the activities which were prepared by the researcher, using as base the learning process with self-regulation. The practice was carried out through the first term of the academic year, 2019-2020, together with the Gürlek Nakipoğlu High School’s 94 12th grade (final year) students. For the research of the learning process with self-regulation, three data collecting instruments have been used, which are English Readiness Test, English Achievement Test and English Attitude Test. The data used for the research of personal innovativeness levels were obtained through a questionnaire and a presonal innovatiness scale, developed by the researcher. At the end of the English class, which had been arranged accordingly with the learning process with prior arrangement, such findings were obtained: After the practice, it is clearly seen that the student’s success is considerably high, depending on the learning process with self-regulation in English learning. Moreover, as a result of researching their personal innovativeness levels, such findings have been reached: There is a meaningful correlation in positive direction, at medium level, between the students’ personal innovativeness levels and their success in learning English. In accordance with the findings derived from the research, several the implementers. Key words: Self-regulation, Cognitive Strategies, Personal Innovativeness, Innovativeness Categories