Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2005
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: ASLIHAN DÖNER
Danışman: ÇİĞDEM KARATEPE
Özet:The aim of the present study is to investigate the adult language learners’ attitudes towards vocabulary and reading strategies. Especially the affect of strategy training on the learners’ attitudes towards these strategies were examined. The study was conducted in a private language course in Bursa, Turkey. All of the language learners (112) in the course were firstly given pre-questionnaire to decide what kind of vocabulary and reading strategies the language learners have the tendency to use, later the results of the analysis of the pre-questionnaire revealed that mostly as they were the adult learners, they were aware of language learning strategies. However, the results revealed that the language learners had the tendency of learning English words by linking them with Turkish words or they like rote memorization. For reading, in general participants demonstrated that they had positive attitudes towards the use of these strategies however, while reading a text the subjects like translating the sentences into Turkish or not did not indicate a clear result. Moreover, some students demonstrated that they liked looking up a dictionary instead of guessing the unknown words during reading an English text. Then after strategy training a post questionnaire was given to investigate the control and experiment group’s attitudes towards vocabulary and reading strategies. 11 subjects were involved in control group and 13 of subjects involved in experiment group. The overall results of the analysis of the post-questionnaire demonstrated that the language learners in the experimental group have maintained much more positive attitudes than the learners in the control group eg: the students in the experimental group indicated that they did not favor rote memorization, translating the sentences into Turkish, looking up a dictionary for every unknown words...etc. In contrast they appear to think that the use of these strategies were a waste of time for them. Furthermore, 3 subjects from the control group and 3 subjects from the experimental group were interviewed inorder to check the attitudes of these learners towards vocabulary and reading strategies more clearly. The results obtained from the interview showed that three students in the experimental group employed much more positive attitudes towards vocabulary and reading strategies. Based on these findings, the researcher recommends that more strategy training should be used in regular classroom activities.