The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores

Çetinkaya, Gökhan; BİLGAN, Gülay

The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores

Gökhan ÇETİNKAYA, (Düzce Üniversitesi)

Gülay BİLGAN (Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi)

RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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Yıl: 2018 Cilt: 13 Sayı: 13 Sayfa Aralığı: 25 - 32 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 05-03-2020

The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores

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The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between EFL learners’ writing performance andtheir use of writing strategies in the context of voluntary-based English Preparatory School. To dothis, Writing Strategy Inventory developed by Özbay (2008), semi-structured interviews andstudents’ writing grades of their 3rd midterm exam were used. Writing Strategy Inventory wasdelivered to 166 students; however, only 152 students took the midterm exam. Following thequantitative data collection procedure, semi-structured interviews were carried out with 15 studentschosen via extreme case sampling method based on the students’ scores on the Writing StrategyInventory. The results show that there is a significant but a low correlation between students’ writingstrategy use and their midterm results. However, during the interviews, students state that they can’tuse the writing strategies during the exams because of limited time for the writing part or just becausethe strategies such as searching the topic on the internet and looking up dictionaries they generallyuse are not appropriate for the exams. Furthermore, the use of writing strategies does not differaccording to gender; on the other hand, students with higher self-proficiency level use more writingstrategies.

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EFL öğrenenlerin yazma stratejisi kullanımı ile yazma puanları arasındaki ilişki

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Bu çalışmanın amacı isteğe bağlı hazırlık sınıflarında yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğrenen öğrencilerin yazma stratejileri ile yazma performansları arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmaktır. Bu amaçla Özbay (2008) tarafından geliştirilen Yazma Stratejileri Envanteri, yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme, öğrencilerin üçüncü vize sınavı sonuçları kullanılmıştır. Toplamda 166 öğrenci Yazma Stratejileri anketini doldurmuştur ancak sadece 152 öğrenci üçüncü vize sınavına girmiştir. Strateji anketi ile nicel verinin toplanmasının ardından öğrencilerin strateji envanterinden aldığı puanlar üzerinden gerçekleştirilen uç örneklem yöntemi ile seçilen, üçüncü vize sınavına girmiş 15 öğrenci ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme gerçekleştirilmiştir. Öğrencilerin vize sınavı sonuçları ile kullandıkları yazma stratejileri arasında anlamlı ancak zayıf bir ilişki bulunmuştur. Ancak görüşme sonuçları öğrencilerin internet ve sözlük gibi genelde kullandıkları stratejilerin sınav ortamı için uygun olmaması ve de sınavlarda kısıtlı bir süreye sahip olmaları nedeniyle yazma stratejilerinden genel olarak faydalanamadıklarını ortaya koymuştur. Ayrıca yazma stratejilerinin kullanımı cinsiyete göre değişmemekle beraber, öz yeterlilik seviyesi yüksek olan öğrencilerin daha çok yazma stratejisi kullandığı ortaya çıkmıştır.

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APA	Çetinkaya G, BİLGAN G (2018). The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 13(13), 25 - 32.
Chicago	Çetinkaya Gökhan,BİLGAN Gülay The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 13, no.13 (2018): 25 - 32.
MLA	Çetinkaya Gökhan,BİLGAN Gülay The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol.13, no.13, 2018, ss.25 - 32.
AMA	Çetinkaya G,BİLGAN G The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2018; 13(13): 25 - 32.
Vancouver	Çetinkaya G,BİLGAN G The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 2018; 13(13): 25 - 32.
IEEE	Çetinkaya G,BİLGAN G "The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores." RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 13, ss.25 - 32, 2018.
ISNAD	Çetinkaya, Gökhan - BİLGAN, Gülay. "The Relationship between EFL learners’ writing strategy use and their writing scores". RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 13/13 (2018), 25-32.