ISSN 3062-262X

Investigation of Turkish Teachers' Views on Secondary School Students' Writing Skills

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Mehmet TÜRKYILMAZ, İhsan KALENDEROĞLU

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Developing writing skills like other language skills in Turkish language teaching is one of the main objectives of the education program and Turkish language course. Especially in recent years, it is noteworthy that students' writing skills have weakened. Both the developing and changing technology and the multiple-choice exams applied in our country have caused students to develop a negative attitude towards writing. The main task in improving students' writing skills and overcoming their prejudices against writing falls to teachers.In this context, in this study, it is aimed to reveal the effectiveness of the current teaching strategies, the difficulties encountered and the successes and shortcomings achieved by examining the views of Turkish teachers on the writing skills of secondary school students in depth. Accordingly, fifteen teachers with at least five years of teaching experience were included in the study. Qualitative research design was used in the study, and based on this method, opinions were obtained from the teachers through a semi-structured interview form. The opinions were analyzed with MAXQDA 24 program according to the content analysis method. As a result of the analysis, themes, categories and codes were created.When the findings obtained from the research are examined, Turkish teachers stated that students mostly had problems with motivation and focusing, and that they also had problems in the process of self-expression because they did not have sufficient reading habits. In addition, it is stated that the most common problem encountered in student products is capitalization. Another result was that teachers preferred to mark the mistakes made by students in their written products with colored pencils and point out the correct ones among the methods of giving feedback. It is seen that teachers mostly prefer story writing and free writing to improve writing skills. In addition, Turkish teachers stated that daily writing activities are necessary to improve their students' writing skills and that reading skills are directly related to writing skills.

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