Türk Polisinin Yabanci Dil Olarak İngilizce Öğreniminde Güdüsel Değişkenlerin İncelenmesi

Year 2018, Volume: 20 Issue: 1, 35 - 55, 01.06.2018

Selim Günay

Abstract

Günümüzün küresel dünyasında, başka bir dil bilmek, özellikle de İngilizce bilmek, kişisel ve mesleki yaşamda önemli bir yetenek haline gelmektedir. Bu olumlu tutum benzer şekilde, son yıllarda Türk polis teşkilatı çalışanları arasında da gözlemlenmektedir. Bu yönelimin sebeplerini ve bunu etkileyen faktörleri araştırmak için Adana ilinde görev yapan 127’si erkek ve 22’ si kadın olmak üzere toplam 149 polis memurunun katılımı ile bir çalışma yapılmıştır. Katılımcılara 82 sorudan oluşan Türkçe bir anket uygulanmış ve sonuçlar nicel değerlendirme tekniklerinden faydalanılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda, araçsal motivasyonun içsel motivasyona oranla daha baskın olduğu bulunmuştur. Ayrıca çalışılan birim, yabancı dil düzeyi ve yurtdışında görev yapma imkanı gibi etkenlerin polis memurlarının İngilizce öğrenme motivasyonları üzerinde etkili olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır

Keywords

Güdü, Tutum, Yabancı dil olarak İngilizce, Güdüsel Degişkenler, Türk Polisi

An Investigation of Turkish Police Officers’ Motivational Variables in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

In today’s global world, knowing another language, particularly English, is becoming an essential skill in both personal and professional life. This tendency for English has also been observed among the members of Turkish police organization. In order to find out the motivational orientations of a group of police officers and also to investigate the variables that effect their motivation, we carried out a study with a total of 149 police officers, 127 men and 22 women in the police department in Adana province. To this end, an 82-item questionnaire was administered in Turkish and the results were subjected to quantitative analysis. We have found out that instrumental motivation is more dominant than integrative motivation among the participants of the study and factors such as the type of the department worked, language proficiency level and affordances such as the possibility of working abroad have an effect on motivation of the police officers

Keywords

Motivation, Attitude, English as a foreign language, Motivational Variables, Turkish Police

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• Appendix: Coding Plan for Data Analysis Column Number Variable Name Value Label
• Variable Labels 1,2 G 1-male 2-female 1-High School
• Vocational School 3-Bachelor 4-Master 1-1-5 years 2-6-10 years 3-11-15 years 4-16-20 years 5-21-above 1-Officer 2-Chief
• Public relations 2- Operational 1- Very good 2- Good 3- Medium 4- Bad 5- Very bad Gender 3,4,5,6 E Education 7,8,9,10,11 EX Experience 12,13 S Status 14,15 D Department 16,17,18,19,20 PL Professional Level