Abstract
The purpose of this research is to define the effect of project- based learning on students’ attitude towards English classes. The study group of the research consisted of 51 students attending grade 10 at an Anatolian high school in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey. In the quantitatively designed research, the “control group pre-test– post-test design”, one of the experimental designs, was applied. The “Scale of Attitude towards English Classes” was used as the data collection tool. The scale consists of 20 items and three sub-dimensions. The research data were compared by applying the Mann Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, calculating the standard deviation value and arithmetic average on the SPSS22 program. Results of the research indicate that there was a significant difference between the experimental group’s pre-test and post-test scores in favour of the post-test. There was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups’ post-test results in favour of the experimental group.
Highlights
In the current education system in which learning how to learn is acknowledged, conveying the internalized knowledge into life by restructuring it is only possible through an environment serving to improve the high- order cognitive skills (Demirel, 2013, 20)
Project-based learning (PBL) is one of the most effective ways to make students realize the problems around them by taking up a more active role in the learning environment, to make them find out different solutions to those problems and to maintain the learning process (Gomleksiz&Fidan, 2013, 120)
Project-based learning can be described as a student-centered education which takes a long timespan in which students pick, plan, research and produce a product, presentation or performance answering a question or a problem to be encountered in actual life. (Holm, 2011, 1)
Summary
In the current education system in which learning how to learn is acknowledged, conveying the internalized knowledge into life by restructuring it is only possible through an environment serving to improve the high- order cognitive skills (Demirel, 2013, 20). In this respect, project-based learning (PBL) is one of the most effective ways to make students realize the problems around them by taking up a more active role in the learning environment, to make them find out different solutions to those problems and to maintain the learning process (Gomleksiz&Fidan, 2013, 120). The project-based learning approach is a learning approach aiming at the solution of problems via the individual or small groups with an attitude resembling life under natural circumstances (Korkmaz &Kaptan, 2001, 193)
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