Pandemi sürecinde kullanılan ders kitabının incelenmesi: Öğretmen ve öğrenci gözünden

Öz

Ders kitabı dil öğretme sürecinde hem öğretmenler hem de öğrenciler için önemli bir role sahiptir. Bu yüzden, öğretmenler, öğrenci ihtiyaçlarını, dil öğretme yöntem ve yollarını göz önünde bulundurarak ders kitabı seçimi yapmalıdır. Diğer bir deyişle, bir kitap yabancı dil öğrencileri için uygun olabilir ama ikindi dil öğrencileri için uygun olmayabilir ya da bir kitap yüz yüze eğitimde kullanım için uygun olabilir ama çevrimiçi eğitim için uygun olmayabilir. Bu yüzden, bu çalışma Türkiye’de bir devlet üniversitesinde isteğe bağlı hazırlık sınıflarında kullanılan Life adlı ders kitabını incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. İsteğe bağlı hazırlık sınıfında 20 kişiden az öğretim elemanı olduğu için ve sonuçlar istatistiksel açıdan anlamlı olmayacağı için nitel bir analiz yapılmıştır. Dahası, kitap ve aktiviteleri hakkında öğrenci görüşleri de paralel anket aracılığıyla toplanmıştır. Burada açık uçlu sorular kullanılmıştır. Anketlerden elde edilen veriler tematik analiz yöntemiyle incelenmiştir. Elde edilen veriye bağlı olarak, 3 kod ortaya çıkmıştır. Güçlü yönler, zayıf yönler ve öneriler.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• COVID-19 pandemisi
• çevrimiçi eğitim
• ders kitabı inceleme
• öğrenci görüşleri
• öğretmen görüşleri

Evaluation of the textbook used in the pandemic: From teachers’ and students’ perspectives

Abstract

The textbook has a significant role in language teaching process for both teachers and learners. Therefore, teachers should select it considering the needs of learners, language teaching method or channel. In other words, a textbook might be appropriate for foreign language learners but not for second language learners or a textbook might be very useful for face-to-face teaching but not for online teaching. Therefore, this current study aims to evaluate “Life” textbook series, which was used in an elective preparatory school of a state university in Turkey. It was used through online learning during the pandemic. Since the number of English teachers in the elective preparatory class is less than 20 and the results, in turn, cannot be statistically significant, qualitative analysis was carried out. Furthermore, students’ opinions about the book and its activities were revealed through the parallel questionnaire. Open-ended questions were employed in this study. Data gathered by means of the questionnaires were analyzed via thematic analysis. Based on the gathered data, 3 codes were revealed, which are listed as in the following: strengths, weaknesses and suggestions.

Keywords

• Covid-19 pandemic
• online teaching
• students
• teachers’ opinions
• textbook evaluation

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