The Effect of Digital Content on Listenig Skills in Middle School Turkish Teaching

Abstract

The course of development of technology, its speed in the recent period and the point it has reached have led to the fact that our relationship with technology has become a necessity rather than a choice. In this respect, teaching activities that are not intertwined with technology and do not include digital elements will remain as practices that will not go beyond the interests and expectations of students who are the subjects of educational environments. This study, which examines the effect of digital content on listening skills in secondary school Turkish teaching, is at an important point in terms of showing the effect of digital elements on the listening skill, which is the first learning channel of human beings and will continue until death, and it is an issue that should be emphasized carefully in terms of forming the basis for other language skills. The sample of this study consists of 60 students studying in the seventh grade of a secondary school in Elazığ province. In the study, mixed research method was preferred as the method and sequential exploratory design was preferred as the design. Quasi-experimental design was used in the quantitative part of the study and phenomenology design was used in the qualitative part. There was one control and one experimental group in the quantitative part of the study. In order to obtain quantitative data within the scope of the study, the Listening Skills Scale developed by Yalçın and Özcan (2022) was applied to the control and experimental groups as pre-test and post-test. The experimental and control groups were determined according to the pre-test results of the students participating in the study. In the qualitative part of the study, data were obtained from interviews with the students and these interviews were analyzed by content analysis. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the listening skill scale scores of the students in the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group in the post-test application, there was a significant increase between the pre-test and post-test scores of the listening skill scale applied to the control group, and there was a significant difference between the listening skill scale scores of the experimental group before and after the application. Considering the results obtained from the interviews, it was seen that listening practices enriched with digital content facilitated comprehension, digital content practices improved listening skills and created a desire to participate in new activities. At the end of the study, suggestions were made for researchers, educators and related institutions.