Üniversite öğrencilerinin ingilizce dersine ilişkin kaygıları ve tutumlarının incelenmesi
Bu araştırmada üniversite öğrencilerinin İngilizce dersine ilişkin kaygıları ve tutumlarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden tarama türünde bir araştırmadır. Araştırmanın evreni Türkiye’de bir devlet üniversitesinin öğrencilerinden oluşmaktadır. Örneklemi ise tabakalı örnekleme yöntemine göre belirlenmiş 700 öğrenci oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak İngilizce ders kaygısı ölçeği ile İngilizceye yönelik tutum ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda İngilizce hazırlık eğitimi alan öğrencilerin kaygılarının hazırlık eğitimi almayanlara göre daha az olduğu, 1. sınıf öğrencilerinin 3. ve 4. sınıf öğrencilerine göre İngilizce dersine yönelik daha az kaygı yaşadıkları, kız öğrencilerin İngilizce dersine ilişkin tutumlarının erkek öğrencilerden daha fazla olduğu ve 1. sınıf öğrencilerinin İngilizce dersine ilişkin tutumlarının daha yüksek olduğu anlaşılmaktadır.
An investigation of anxiety and attitudes of university students towards English courses
The aim of this research is to examine the anxieties and attitudes of university students towards English languagecourses. It is a survey type study of quantitative research methods. The population of the study consists ofstudents from a state university in Turkey. The sample consists of 700 students determined by stratified samplingmethod. In the study, as data collection tools, English language anxiety scale and English language attitude scalewere used. In this study, it was concluded that students with preparatory education had less anxiety scores thanthe students without preparatory education. It was found that freshman students feel less anxious about Englishlessons than junior and senior students. It was also found that females’ attitude scores towards English werehigher than males’ and freshman students have higher attitude scores towards English lesson.
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