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Exploring EFL Students’ Dispositions toward Global Citizenship: A Quantitative Study at a Preparatory School in Türkiye

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 2, 68 - 77, 26.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.14744/yjer.2025.006

Öz

Global Citizenship (GC) has become a vital focus in teaching English to foster globally minded language learners to build a more inclusive and sustainable world. For this reason, the present study aims to explore GC dispositions of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) preparatory school students at a Turkish higher education institution (HEI). The study adopted a quantitative research design. Data was collected from 181 preparatory school students (129 female and 52 male) enrolled. The Turkish version of the Global Citizenship Scale (Erbaş et al., 2023), adapted from Reysen and Katzarska-Miller (2013), was used as the data collection tool. Statistical analysis, including descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation analysis, independent samples t-test, and one-way ANOVA, were conducted using SPSS version 29. Findings showed that students scored highest in global awareness, normative environment, and environmental sustainability; though, they scored lowest in global citizenship identification. Furthermore, the strongest correlations were identified for responsibility to act, intergroup helping, and intergroup empathy. The findings revealed no statistically significant difference in terms of gender, though females had higher levels of mean GC score. Likewise, though there were also no statistically significant differences across their academic majors and language proficiency levels, vocational school students and lower proficiency level students showed higher levels of GC scores. These findings suggest that while students show awareness of key global issues such as environment, justice, and understanding among groups, they show a relatively low level of identity and, in turn, global citizenship. Therefore, practitioners and curriculum designers might integrate identity and engagement-related components into the English language teaching curricula rather than solely awareness-related components to foster more globally competent and engaged learners.

Etik Beyan

The study was approved by the Süleyman Demirel University Ethics Committee, Social and Human Sciences Ethics Committee (Approval Number: 11, Date: 05.03.2025)

Destekleyen Kurum

The authors have not declared any financial support.

Kaynakça

  • Bulut, B. (2024). Correlation between global citizenship and sustainable development awareness levels of pre-service teachers. International Online J Educ Sci, 11(3), 279-293.
  • Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: Essays and reflections. Multilingual Matters.
  • Byram, M., Nichols, A., & Stevens, D. (Eds.). (2017). Developing intercultural competence in practice. Multilingual Matters.
  • Çolak, K., Kabapınar, Y., & Öztürk, C. (2019). Social studies courses teachers’ views on global citizenship and global citizenship education. Educ Sci, 44(197), 335-352.
  • Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). SAGE Publications.
  • Davies, L. (2008). Global citizenship education. In M. Bajaj (Ed.), Encyclopedia of peace education (pp. 109–114). Information Age Publishing.
  • Deardorff, D. K. (2006). The identification and assessment of intercultural competence as a student outcome of internationalization. JSIE, 10(3), 241–266.
  • Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice. Cornell University Press.
  • Erbaş, Y. H., Özbaşı, D., & Genç, S. Z. (2023). Küresel vatandaş ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanması: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 32, 131–146.
  • Ersoy, A. F. (2013). An analysis of social studies textbooks in Turkey: From national citizenship to global citizenship. IJPE, 9(3), 137-153.
  • Gaudelli, W. (2016). Global citizenship education: Everyday transcendence. Routledge.
  • Gezer, M., & İlhan, M. (2023). Adaptation of the Global Citizenship Scale–Short Form (GCS–SF) into Turkish. Başkent Univ J Educ, 10(1), 135–147.
  • Güven, M. (2018). The role of education in the nationalization of the Turkish curriculum. Educ Rev, 25(1), 88–102.
  • Lütge, C., Merse, T., & Rauschert, P. (2022). Global citizenship in foreign language education: Concepts, practices, connections. Routledge.
  • Mayers, A. (2013). Introduction to statistics and SPSS in psychology. Pearson Education Limited.
  • Navarro, D., Tolosa, C., & Egerton, B. (2025). A global citizenship education initiative and the fostering of intercultural competence in schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lang Intercult Commun, 1-16.
  • Nguyen, M. T. (2021). Validating a scale for measuring students' perspectives toward global citizenship: A case at a private university in Vietnam. Education Quarterly Reviews, 4(3), 575–587.
  • Oxfam. (2006). Education for global citizenship: A guide for schools. Oxford: Oxfam.
  • Reysen, S., & Katzarska-Miller, I. (2013). A model of global citizenship: Antecedents and outcomes. International Journal of Psychology, 48(5), 858–870.
  • Schutte, I. W., Kamans, E., Wolfensberger, M. V. C., & Veugelers, W. (2017). Preparing students for global citizenship: The effects of a Dutch undergraduate honors course. Education Research International, 1, 1–12.
  • Starkey, H. (2020). Challenges to global citizenship education: Nationalism and cosmopolitanism. In C. Lütge, T.
  • Merse, & P. Rauschert (Eds.), Global citizenship in foreign language education: Concepts, practices, connections (pp. 62–78). Routledge.
  • UNESCO. (2014). Global citizenship education: Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st century. UNESCO Publishing.
  • UNESCO. (2015). Global citizenship education: Topics and learning objectives. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
  • Wang, M., Devitt, A., Hodgins, G., & Bauer, C. (2021). Students’ intercultural sensitivity development through telecollaborative Chinese language learning on Zoom: A case study of Irish students at the beginning level of Chinese language. In N. Zoghlami, C. Brudermann, C. Sarré, M. Grosbois, L. Bradley, & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL and professionalisation: Short papers from EUROCALL 2021 (pp. 279–284). Research-publishing.net.
  • Xu, W., & Stahl, G. (2023). Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) education and global citizenship: Pedagogical encounters and endangered spaces of possibility. Glob Soc Educ, 21(1), 135–147.
  • Zhang, C., & Li, C. (2025). Development and reliability and validity test of the adolescent global citizenship scale. IJHSES, 34(1), 1–12.

İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğrenen Öğrencilerin Küresel Vatandaşlığa Karşı Tutumlarının İncelenmesi: Türkiye’deki Hazırlık Okulunda Yapılan Nicel Bir Çalışma

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 10 Sayı: 2, 68 - 77, 26.12.2025
https://doi.org/10.14744/yjer.2025.006

Öz

Küresel Vatandaşlık (KV), daha kapsayıcı ve sürdürülebilir bir dünya inşa etmek için küresel düşünen dil öğrenenleri teşvik etmek amacıyla İngilizce öğretiminde hayati bir odak noktası haline gelmiştir. Bu nedenle, bu çalışma, bir Türk yükseköğretim kurumundaki (HEI) Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce (EFL) hazırlık okulu öğrencilerinin Küresel Vatandaşlık eğilimlerini araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çalışmada nicel bir araştırma tasarımı benimsenmiştir. Veriler, kayıtlı 181 hazırlık okulu öğrencisinden (129 kız ve 52 erkek) toplanmıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak Reysen ve Katzarska-Miller’dan (2013) uyarlanan Küresel Vatandaşlık Ölçeği’nin (Erbaş vd., 2023) Türkçe versiyonu kullanılmıştır. Tanımlayıcı istatistikler, Pearson korelasyon analizi, bağımsız örneklem t-testi ve tek yönlü ANOVA dahil olmak üzere istatistiksel analizler SPSS sürüm 29 kullanılarak yapılmıştır. Bulgular, öğrencilerin küresel farkındalık, normatif çevre ve çevresel sürdürülebilirlik alanlarında en yüksek puanları aldıklarını; ancak küresel vatandaşlık kimliğinde en düşük puanları aldıklarını göstermiştir. Ayrıca, en güçlü korelasyonlar eylem sorumluluğu, gruplar arası yardımlaşma ve gruplar arası empati için tespit edilmiştir. Bulgular kadınların ortalama küresel vatandaşlık puanlarının daha yüksek olmasına rağmen, cinsiyet açısından istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark olmadığını göstermiştir. Benzer şekilde, öğrencilerin akademik bölümleri ve dil yeterlilik düzeyleri arasında da istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark bulunmamasına rağmen meslek yüksekokulu öğrencileri ve düşük yeterlik düzeyindeki öğrenciler daha yüksek küresel vatandaşlık puanları göstermiştir. Bu bulgular, öğrencilerin çevre, adalet ve gruplar arası anlayış gibi temel küresel konular hakkında farkındalık gösterirken, küresel vatandaşlık konusunda nispeten düşük düzeyde kimlik ve buna bağlı olarak katılım gösterdiklerini ortaya koymaktadır. Bu nedenle, uygulayıcılar ve müfredat tasarımcıları, küresel anlamda daha yetkin ve ilgili öğrenciler yetiştirmek için İngilizce öğretim müfredatına yalnızca farkındalıkla ilgili bileşenler yerine kimlik ve katılımla ilgili bileşenleri entegre etmek isteyebilir.

Etik Beyan

Çalışma için Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Üniversite Etik Kurulu Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Etik Kurulu Karari onay alınmıştır (Approval Number: 11, Date: 05.03.2025)

Destekleyen Kurum

Yazarlar finansal destek beyan etmemişlerdir.

Kaynakça

  • Bulut, B. (2024). Correlation between global citizenship and sustainable development awareness levels of pre-service teachers. International Online J Educ Sci, 11(3), 279-293.
  • Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: Essays and reflections. Multilingual Matters.
  • Byram, M., Nichols, A., & Stevens, D. (Eds.). (2017). Developing intercultural competence in practice. Multilingual Matters.
  • Çolak, K., Kabapınar, Y., & Öztürk, C. (2019). Social studies courses teachers’ views on global citizenship and global citizenship education. Educ Sci, 44(197), 335-352.
  • Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). SAGE Publications.
  • Davies, L. (2008). Global citizenship education. In M. Bajaj (Ed.), Encyclopedia of peace education (pp. 109–114). Information Age Publishing.
  • Deardorff, D. K. (2006). The identification and assessment of intercultural competence as a student outcome of internationalization. JSIE, 10(3), 241–266.
  • Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice. Cornell University Press.
  • Erbaş, Y. H., Özbaşı, D., & Genç, S. Z. (2023). Küresel vatandaş ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanması: Geçerlik ve güvenirlik çalışması. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 32, 131–146.
  • Ersoy, A. F. (2013). An analysis of social studies textbooks in Turkey: From national citizenship to global citizenship. IJPE, 9(3), 137-153.
  • Gaudelli, W. (2016). Global citizenship education: Everyday transcendence. Routledge.
  • Gezer, M., & İlhan, M. (2023). Adaptation of the Global Citizenship Scale–Short Form (GCS–SF) into Turkish. Başkent Univ J Educ, 10(1), 135–147.
  • Güven, M. (2018). The role of education in the nationalization of the Turkish curriculum. Educ Rev, 25(1), 88–102.
  • Lütge, C., Merse, T., & Rauschert, P. (2022). Global citizenship in foreign language education: Concepts, practices, connections. Routledge.
  • Mayers, A. (2013). Introduction to statistics and SPSS in psychology. Pearson Education Limited.
  • Navarro, D., Tolosa, C., & Egerton, B. (2025). A global citizenship education initiative and the fostering of intercultural competence in schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lang Intercult Commun, 1-16.
  • Nguyen, M. T. (2021). Validating a scale for measuring students' perspectives toward global citizenship: A case at a private university in Vietnam. Education Quarterly Reviews, 4(3), 575–587.
  • Oxfam. (2006). Education for global citizenship: A guide for schools. Oxford: Oxfam.
  • Reysen, S., & Katzarska-Miller, I. (2013). A model of global citizenship: Antecedents and outcomes. International Journal of Psychology, 48(5), 858–870.
  • Schutte, I. W., Kamans, E., Wolfensberger, M. V. C., & Veugelers, W. (2017). Preparing students for global citizenship: The effects of a Dutch undergraduate honors course. Education Research International, 1, 1–12.
  • Starkey, H. (2020). Challenges to global citizenship education: Nationalism and cosmopolitanism. In C. Lütge, T.
  • Merse, & P. Rauschert (Eds.), Global citizenship in foreign language education: Concepts, practices, connections (pp. 62–78). Routledge.
  • UNESCO. (2014). Global citizenship education: Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st century. UNESCO Publishing.
  • UNESCO. (2015). Global citizenship education: Topics and learning objectives. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
  • Wang, M., Devitt, A., Hodgins, G., & Bauer, C. (2021). Students’ intercultural sensitivity development through telecollaborative Chinese language learning on Zoom: A case study of Irish students at the beginning level of Chinese language. In N. Zoghlami, C. Brudermann, C. Sarré, M. Grosbois, L. Bradley, & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL and professionalisation: Short papers from EUROCALL 2021 (pp. 279–284). Research-publishing.net.
  • Xu, W., & Stahl, G. (2023). Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) education and global citizenship: Pedagogical encounters and endangered spaces of possibility. Glob Soc Educ, 21(1), 135–147.
  • Zhang, C., & Li, C. (2025). Development and reliability and validity test of the adolescent global citizenship scale. IJHSES, 34(1), 1–12.
Toplam 27 adet kaynakça vardır.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular Dil Çalışmaları (Diğer)
Bölüm Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar

Derya Coşkun 0000-0001-6044-6109

Sarah Rochelle Howe 0009-0003-1394-9610

Nihan Erdemir 0000-0002-8610-3590

Gönderilme Tarihi 4 Haziran 2025
Kabul Tarihi 2 Aralık 2025
Yayımlanma Tarihi 26 Aralık 2025
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2025 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA Coşkun, D., Howe, S. R., & Erdemir, N. (2025). Exploring EFL Students’ Dispositions toward Global Citizenship: A Quantitative Study at a Preparatory School in Türkiye. Yıldız Journal of Educational Research, 10(2), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.14744/yjer.2025.006