Investigation Of Against Writing Skills Attitude Of Turkish Student Teachers In Terms Of Certain Variables
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate attitudes towards writing skills of students
studying in Turkish teaching department of education faculties in terms of some variables. At
the study was used Writing Attitude Scale (WAS) that was developed by Marcia O’Neal et al.
(1984) and was made validity and reliability by Göçer (2014) as a data collection instrument.
Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient of the scale was found as .85. The participant are 294 Turkish
student teachers studying in Turkish teaching department 4 university’s Faculties of Education
in the different geographical regions of Turkey in the study. The data obtained analyzed using
Tukey test, F test (ANOVA), arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t-test statistical methods
for the purposes of the research. According to the results achieved from the data, is no difference
attitudes towards writing skills in terms of the variables graduated high school type and type of education for Turkish student teachers; were found to be the difference in terms of gender,
and they read university variables. Execution of writing activities of outside school in the subdimension
of the scale was found to be significantly higher male students than female students’
levels and was found to be significantly higher levels of Karadeniz Technical University than
Erciyes University students’ level.
Keywords
Turkish education,writing skills,writing attitude,dimensions of attitude,Turkish student teacher
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