Abstract
A learner is able to make his/her cognitive skills more effective through writing. S/he organizes his/her emotions and thoughts as well. The usage of language with this awareness would influence the individual’s mother tongue education. Writing course, which is a significant part of the mother tongue education, tried to determine the role of the learner due to the education reforms constructed in the 19th century. In this study, we discussed the progressions of the writing course which took in time with regards to social changes in the history. We examined the course books ∗ Yrd. Doc. Dr., Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, celileokten@gmail.comand syllabuses which are prepared for the formal education. The course books are classified chronologically in order to show that what the social structural changes expect from the education, and according to the contents of the writing course. The content analysis of each book has been based on sociolinguistic approach. Eventually, the effects of the classical rhetoric, artistic purpose and elitist educational view have been diminished. The objectives of the formal education and the needs of modern individual took the floor, instead ofthe social hierarchy and aesthetic concepts which had previously settled on the course objectives and outcomes. Thus, due to the fact that the public education dictates the certain rules for the social order, the writing course has been designed on practicing communicative and cognitive skills for the benefits of modern individual.
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