In this study, the relationship between the speech anxiety and speaking skill attitudes of middle school students and the reasons for students' speech anxiety, the conditions in which speech anxiety is observed, and the solutions of teachers were scrutinized. In the research, mixed method was used since it allows more in-depth examination. In this method, the sequential explanatory design was used. The first stage of the study was conducted with 546 middle school students in order to determine the relationship between the speech anxiety and speaking skill attitudes of middle school students. The second stage of the study was conducted with 20 teachers working in the same school that students are studying in order to determine the conditions that speech anxiety is observed, the reasons of these conditions, and the activities that teachers perform in order to eliminate speech anxiety with the opinions of teachers. The data collection tools of the study consist of personal information form, speech anxiety scale, speaking skill attitudes scale and interview form. In the analysis of the data, the IBM SPSS and MAXQDA 12 programs were used. According to the results of the study, there was a negative significant relationship between the speech anxiety and speaking skill attitudes of the students. Furthermore, teachers stated that they observe speech anxiety in students when they are speaking in front of a group, the reasons of speech anxiety are mostly the fear of being mocked and lack of self-confidence and that they create more appropriate speech subjects and anxiety environments in order to eliminate speech anxiety.
Özet Ömer Seyfettin'in hikâyelerinin eleştirel düşünmenin özellikleri açısından incelenmesi ve bu hikâyelerin Türkçe öğretiminde nasıl kullanılabileceğinin tespit edilmesi araştırmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır. Tarama modelinde betimsel bir çalışma olan araştırmada nitel veri toplama teknikleri kullanılmıştır. Alan taraması yoluyla eleştirel düşüncenin özellikleri belirlenmiş, Ömer Seyfettin'in bütün hikâyeleri bu özelliklere göre değerlendirilerek veriler elde edilmiştir. Araştırmanın sonucuna göre Ömer Seyfettin'in hikâyelerinin eleştirel düşünmenin özelliklerini büyük ölçüde taşıdığı tespit edilmiştir. Buna göre Ömer Seyfettin'in hikâyeleri, eleştirel düşünmeyi geliştirme bakımından Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılabilecek zengin metinlerdir.
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