An investigation of textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language with Rasch measurement model and Maxqda

Yıl: 2019 Cilt: 15 Sayı: 4 Sayfa Aralığı: 1269 - 1286 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.17263/jlls.668420 İndeks Tarihi: 13-01-2020

An investigation of textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language with Rasch measurement model and Maxqda

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This study aims to investigate textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language according to Turkish lecturers’perspectives. Within this scope, these textbooks were evaluated in terms of the characteristics they possess. Thestudy benefited from qualitative and quantitative approaches. The Rach measurement model was used in thequantitative and case study was used in the qualitative part. The perspectives of 54 lecturers working at Turkisheducation centers of universities in Turkey were obtained and 32 of them were used in the study. The TextbookEvaluation Scale developed by Batdı (2010) was used to collect the quantitative data of the study. A semistructuredinterview form developed by the researchers was used to collect the qualitative data. Rasch and contentanalysis were used to analyze the data. Codes and themes were revealed using Maxqda software while conductingthe content analysis. Excerpts from the interviews were included to corroborate the participants’ assessments. Atthe end of the study, the general characteristics of the textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language wereidentified and the positive and negative attributes were determined. The different analyses conducted indicatedthat the books of Yediİklim and İstanbul have positive characteristics compared to the other books.
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Yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan ders kitaplarının Rasch ölçme modeli ve Maxqda ile incelenmesi

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Bu çalışmanın amacı yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan ders kitaplarını Türkçe okutmanlarının görüşlerine göre incelemektir. Bu kapsamda yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan ders kitapları sahip oldukları özellikler açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Bu çalışma nitel ve nicel yaklaşımlardan yararlanılarak hazırlanmıştır. Nicel boyutta Rasch ölçme modeli kullanılırken nitel boyutta ise durum çalışmasından yararlanılmıştır. Veriler toplanırken Türkiye’deki üniversitelerin Türkçe öğretim merkezlerinde görev yapan 54 okutmandan görüş alınmış ve bunlardan 32’sinin verileri araştırmada kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada nicel veri toplama aracı olarak Batdı’nın (2010) geliştirdiği ders kitaplarını değerlendirme ölçeğinden yararlanılmıştır. Nitel veriler için araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu kullanılmıştır. Verilerin analizinde Rasch ve içerik analizi kullanılmıştır. İçerik analizi yapılırken Maxqda programı kullanılarak kodlar ve temalar çıkarılmıştır. Katılımcıların görüşlerini desteklemek için örnek alıntılar eklenmiştir. Çalışmanın sonucunda yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan kitapların genel özellikleri ortaya konarak olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri belirlenmiştir. Yapılan farklı analizler sonucunda Yedi İklim ve İstanbul kitaplarının diğer kitaplara göre artı yönlerinin olduğu görülmüştür.
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APA Biçer N, BATDI V (2019). An investigation of textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language with Rasch measurement model and Maxqda. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 15(4), 1269 - 1286. 10.17263/jlls.668420
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ISNAD Biçer, Nurşat - BATDI, Veli. "An investigation of textbooks used to teach Turkish as a foreign language with Rasch measurement model and Maxqda". Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies 15/4 (2019), 1269-1286. https://doi.org/10.17263/jlls.668420