DEVELOPING A CRITICAL EYE THROUGH REASONING FALLACIES

Bu çalışmanın amacı muhakeme yanlışları hakkında farkındalık yaratmanın İngilizce Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı birinci sınıf öğrencilerinin eleştirel okuma becerileri üzerine etkisini incelemektir. Bu etki, çalışmada kullanılan her bir muhakeme yanlışı için 7 tane soru içeren, 56 soruluk muhakeme yanlışları testi ile değerlendirilmiştir. Literatürde, 14 ile 191 arasında değişen birçok muhakeme yanlışı olmasına rağmen bunların hepsi çalışmaya dahil edilmemiş, sadece testte geçen ve sık karşılaşılanlar tercih edilmiştir. Bunların yanı sıra, literatür çalışması esnasında bazı sık karşılaşılan muhakeme yanlışları da belirlenerek literatür taraması bölümüne dahil edilmiştir. Bu çalışma, argümanları ve tartışma yazılarını sorgulama üzerine eğitim alan öğrencilerle geleneksel okuma sınıflarında normal müfredatı takip eden öğrencilerin muhakeme yanlışları hakkındaki farkındalıklarını karşılaştırmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak ön-test ve son-test kullanılan gerçek deneysel araştırma deseni kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen veriler bağımsız değişkenler t-testi, Wilcoxon işaretli sıralar testi ve Mann-Whitney Utesti ile analiz edilmiştir. Deney grubu 27, kontrol grubu ise 24 öğrenciden oluşmuştur. Gruplar, on şube arasından rastgele yöntemle seçilmiştir. Analiz sonuçları, uygulama sonrasında deney ve kontrol grubu arasında anlamlı bir fark olduğunu göstermiştir (p

ELEŞTİREL BAKIŞ AÇISINI MUHAKEME YANLIŞLARI KULLANARAK GELİŞTİRME

The aim of this study was to explore the impact of raising awareness about reasoning fallacies on the development of critical reading skills of the first grade students in the ELT department, Gazi Faculty of Education. It was evaluated via a 56-question reasoning fallacies test confining seven questions to each fallacy studied in this research. Although there are numerous kinds of fallacies, between 14 and 191 to be more precise, the common ones were chosen in accordance with the reasoning fallacies test for practical reasons. In addition to this, during the literature review, some other common fallacies were determined and included in this dissertation. This study compared the students trained explicitly about questioning the arguments and argumentative texts on the one side and the students in the ordinary reading classes following the regular syllabus in terms of awareness about reasoning fallacies. A true experimental design was used to collect data through preand post-tests. The collected data were analyzed by using independent samples t-test, Wilcoxon signed-ranks test and Mann-Whitney U-test. The experimental group consisted of 27 students and the control group consisted of 24 students. The groups were randomly selected from among ten classes. The results of the analysis revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group and the control group after the treatment (p

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