The Middle School Students’ Attitudes towards Turkish Course and Perceptions for Turkish Teachers

Mustafa Turkyilmaz,Mustafa Armut

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.7.4.913

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The purpose of this study is to determine the attitude towards Turkish Course and reveal the perception of students towards Turkish Course and teacher. In this context, a personal information form and Attitude Towards Turkish Course (ATTC) Scale were applied to 419 students who receive education in the center of Kirsehir province, in Turkey. In addition to that, the metaphors of students towards Turkish teacher and course were compiled by means of semi-structured interview form. The students were also required to draw pictures that express their feelings towards Turkish Course. The results can be summarized as follows: it was seen that Turkish teachers were likened to an “angel”, “cotton” and “panda”, and happy emojis and heart figures were drawn towards Turkish Course. It was understood that the attitudes of- female students in comparison to male students, the ones who possess a phone to the ones who do not, the ones who have a higher literacy level to the ones with lower literacy level, the ones with more social media followers to the ones with less followers and the ones who spend more extracurricular time with to the ones who do not- have been developed more positively.</p>

Highlights

Expressing the feelings and emotions is not an easy action to perform for human beings
The results can be summarized as follows: it was seen that Turkish teachers were likened to an “angel”, “cotton” and “panda”, and happy emojis and heart figures were drawn towards Turkish Course
In this study, the phenomenology which is among the qualitative research methods, in order to reveal the perceptions of secondary school students towards Turkish teachers was employed. (Yildirim & Simsek, 2013)

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Expressing the feelings and emotions is not an easy action to perform for human beings. The poet Orhan Veli said “I can not express”. Such as the difficulties occur in terms of the action of expressing, it is not so easy to understand the message that is sent through a verbal or written source. The concern of expression is the underlying reason of making gnarled voices. In the modern times that visuality is dominating, human beings try to express themselves intensely through visual communication tools. Just as the individuals who endeavor to find solution to understand and express, societies choose the way of employing modern devices prevalently and frequently in order to understand and express

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