Assessment of Written Expression Skills of University Students in Terms of Text Completion Technique

Year 2017, Volume: 5 Issue: 4, 1075 - 1082, 30.12.2017

Abdulkadir Kırbaş

Abstract

Writing is to transfer the visualised ideas on the paper. Writing, one of the language skills, is a significant tool of communication which provides the permanency of information conveying emotions and thoughts. Since writing has both cognitive and physical aspects, it makes writing the hardest and the latest language skill to improve. The studies show that writing activity is the most difficult skill students have difficulty. In higher education, in order to improve writing skills of students and give basic information and skills about writing skills written expression, composition and writing education lessons are taught both in the department of Turkish Language and Literature and in the departments of Turkish Language in the Faculties of Education. One of the aims of these lessons is to teach students written expression techniques together with the purposes and practices. One of the written expression techniques is text completion skill that improves student’s creativity and enhances her/his imaginary world. The purpose of this study is to assess students’ skills of using text completion technique with reference to the writing studies of students in higher education. the sample of the study consists of 85 college students studying in the department of Turkish Language and Literature in Gümüşhane University in 2016-2017 academic year. The data of the study were obtained from the written expression studies of the students. The introduction part of the article ‘On Reading’ by F. Bacon was given to the students and they were required to complete the text. ‘Text Completion Rating Scale in Writing Expression’ was developed to assess the data of the study by taking opinions of lecturers and Turkish education experts. The data of the study were presented with percentage and frequency rates. At the end of the study, it was concluded that students had weakness in some skills such as writing an effective body part about the topic given in the text, narrating the subject matter in logical coherence, segueing properly among paragraphs, comprehending the main theme and writing connective and impressive conclusion.

Keywords

Higher Education Students, Written Expression Works, Text Completion Skills

Assessment of Written Expression Skills of University Students in Terms of Text Completion Technique

Abstract

Keywords

Higher Education Students, Written Expression Works, Text Completion Skills

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