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    According to students' views the assessment of Turkish literature books
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2010) Epcacan, Cahit; Epcacan, Cevdet; Ulas, A. Halim; Delek, Tuba
    The purpose of this research is to evaluate Turkish Literature lesson book according to students' views. For the research, description method has been used as a means of data collecting in the study. In the first section of the survey form, students' some of personal information, questions about a measuring tool with three levels consisted of 39 items in Likert style which was prepared by researchers have been used. Items graded in the scale as 'I don't agree', 'I'm hesitant', and 'I agree' have been marked in order of 1, 2, and 3. 9-12 class students having education at Siirt secondary schools in 2009-2010 Education Teaching year of spring term have composed of the phase of the study. After sorting out students reached for the implementation that filled the survey matters deficiently or answer survey matters without giving required precision, data received from the rest of 1381 students have been collected. Survey's level of cronbach alpha reliability coefficient has been determined as 0.76 with the reliability study done over collected data. In the analysis of data resolved with SPS programme in computer atmosphere, descriptive statistics, average, standard deviation, unrelated groups t-test, one way variance analysis, methods of multiple comparison have been resorted. Grade of meaningfulness has been received as 0.05. In the analysis's, views of students about Turkish literature lesson books 'adequacy have been given by means of research findings and results.
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    Assessment of the curriculum of Turkish language teaching in the 2nd grade of primary education in terms of critical thinking skills
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    This study aims to assess Turkish language teaching program of the 2nd grade primary school in terms of critical thinking skills. The document examination method, a qualitative research method, was employed in the research. Giving information on the general structure, and content of Turkish language teaching program (6-7-8), gains there from were reviewed. These gains were classified under the titles of critical thinking skills. In the reviewed Turkish language teaching program (6-7-8), 158 gains among the total of 228 under the fields of reading, listening/following, speaking, writing, learning, and grammar were found to be intended for critical thinking skills. It was further ascertained that, these gains were intended more for application and analyzing skills than those of critical thinking. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.
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    Attitudes and opinions of Turkish language teacher candidates on the usage of basic language skills
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2010) Ulas, A. Halim; Kolac, Emine; Epcacan, Cahit; Sevim, Oguzhan
    The purpose of this research is to put forward the status and opinions of Turkish Language Teaching students on basic language skills. In this research, using the opinions of 235 students of Turkish Language Teaching during 2009-2010 year of education, a survey form consisting of six questions was used as a data collecting tool. The collected data was resolved by using descriptive analysis technique, and the achieved findings are presented numerically. In light of the achieved findings; the results are that speaking is in the first rank of the most important category of the four basic language skills, that 56.60% the students perceive themselves to be insufficient in the subject of using it, that speaking is the first and writing is the last of these skills in being used in daily life, listening is the first and writing is the last of these skills in being used in classroom, that reading is the first among the reasons for the lack of using basic language skills, that the second reason is the lessons in the program not reinforcing these skills, that then comes the lack of effort, and that the last of these reasons is educators not providing the environment to reinforce these skills in the classroom. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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    Examination of texts of secondary school turkish schoolbooks in terms of constructivism approach
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Epcacan, Cahit
    The language is one of the most basic instruments in using the basic language skills and thinking strategies that the individual will use lifelong to establish a healthy communication with surroundings during his/her self-development process. This basic instrument is practiced on the mother tongue axis. The Turkish lesson in our country is also in key position to develop the basic language skills and thinking skills. Language teaching is practiced via the texts. So this makes the features of texts involved in Turkish schoolbooks much more important. The texts are instruments one each to develop the language, intellectual, social, and intellectual independency skills in Turkish teaching. (Gunes, 2009, p. 16). The constructivism approach explains how this instrument is required to be used within the frame of its assumptions. In this study the texts in Turkish schoolbooks of 5th class in secondary schools are intended to be examined in terms of constructivism approach. In the study eight texts are selected from the Turkish schoolbook of 5th class with a qualitative approach and these texts are examined in terms of features of constructivism. The study performed is considered to be a guide to select texts for the Turkish schoolbooks. (C) 2013 The Authors Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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    Functional linguistics as for linguistic applications in Turkish language teaching
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Epcacan, Cahit
    Grammar is defined as a science which identifies the rules of a language after analysing phonology, syntax and sentence structure (Turkish Language Institution 2005). Functional Linguistics has gained popularity in the recent centuries after related researches. Again by Turkish Language Institution (2005) defines function as: Any duty, any functionality or ability to perform a duty. From the distinctions given above, it is necessary to classify and define Functional Linguistics and Functional Grammar separately. Functional Grammar is a Structural Linguistic Trend which deals with the components and the connections between these components of a language in terms of informational functions, which gives priority to informational function to identify and evaluate language facts and finally by this concept, which tries to find out correct linguistic description. As for the methodology the main rule here is to identify the functions of linguistic facts which try to fulfill the informative duties and thereby find the specific value of it in the language system. (Vardar ad, 1998: page 129; by Iscan 2007). Functional Linguistics tries to identify the main meaningful components of the language system, the connections between these components and their functionalities of informative duties. (Rifat, 2000, Page. 63). (C) 2013 The Authors Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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    Investigation of Teacher's Perceptions of the Educational Problems of Bilingual Students in Terms of Some Variables
    (Pegem Akad Yayincilik Egitim Danismanlik Hizmetleri Tic Ltd Sti, 2022) Epcacan, Cahit
    In the wake of the spreading universalization in the world, cultural interactions and developments also reflect on the language structure of societies. Cultural interactions result in an increase in the number of bilingual and multilingual individuals. This study seeks to examine the perceptions of teachers about the educational problems of bilingual students in terms of some variables. Conducted with the screening method, one of the quantitative research methods, this study used the 29-item Bilingualism Educational Problem Scale of Likert-type developed by the researchers as a data collection tool. An online questionnaire form was used to collect the data. The population consists of 500 teachers from 10 different branches (f: 290; in: 210), working in various regions of Turkey under the Ministry of National Education. In the analysis of the research data, descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test, and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. The reliability analysis of the Bilingualism Educational Problem Scale was performed and Cronbach's alpha reliability value was found to be .90. The results show that there was a significant difference between the teachers' perceptions of the educational problems of bilingual students in terms of years of service, branch, degree, socioeconomic environment variables, but no significant difference was found in terms of gender and graduation status.
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    Opinions of teacher candidates on elementary literacy teaching
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    This study was performed in order to determine the opinions of 4th Grade Classroom Teaching Department students on elementary literacy teaching. Screening model was used in the study. Data were collected by the questionnaire form developed by Kola (2010). Having the answers to open-ended questions reviewed via content analysis method, and having the data from field --- assessed, answers from students were thereby collected under different themes. Frequency (f) and percentage (P) values of all those data were assessed. As a result of the research, it was ascertained that, most of the teacher candidates expressed opinions on elementary literacy teaching to be practical, however it was further ascertained they were concerned particularly due to being inexperienced in elementary literacy teaching, and they would like to teach 1st and 3rd grades the most in their first year in teaching. Besides, teacher candidates stated that, specializing in the main field would on one hand be beneficial both in rendering better education to students, and better skills to teacher candidates, but on the other hand this might cause difficulties for teachers to go down to the level of students. Teacher candidates want to become specialized mostly in Maths and Turkish courses. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.
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    The concept of Media Literacy and an evaluation on the necessity of media literacy education in creating awareness towards Turkish language
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Ulas, A. Halim; Epcacan, Cahit; Kocak, Busra
    In this study, the concept of Media Literacy has been elaborated. It is a new topic in the area of investigation in Turkey. Also, the need of it for developing awareness for Turkish language has been explained. The purpose to develop awareness for the true usage of the Turkish language in the Mass Media where we often witness misusages. The possible remedies are mentioned. In the research, the investigation of documents method has been used which is one of the qualitative research methods. The literature search has been done through local and global sources. Primarily, the Media Literacy concept has been elucidated, then, the global and local (in Turkey) practices of Media Literacy has been mentioned. The issue of How should be the education of Media Literacy? has been elaborated and the importance of Media Literacy for developing awareness towards Turkish language has been emphasized. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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    The study of visual reading strategies scale of validity and reliability in comprehension teaching
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2010) Epcacan, Cevdet; Epcacan, Cahit; Ulas, A. Halim
    The purpose of this research is to develop a scale which intends to measure levels of primary school teachers in using visual strategies in comprehension teaching. Scale form has been prepared in 50 items likert structure by profiting from concerned academicals resources and thesis's. This scale tool is consisted of two sections. In the first section, there are items which aim to determine the levels of branch teachers' participation to the questions that have been asked regarding application of visual strategies. In the second section, there are items which aim to determine the levels of strategies in comprehension teaching. The application of the scale has been put into practice by branch teachers of center primary schools in Siirt, in 2008-2009 teaching year. In the structure validity of scale, the rate of KMO test has been found as 0.912, the rate of Barlett Sphericity test has been found as 6282,592 ( p=0.00). The coefficient reliability of scale has been appointed as 0.93. It has been applied to Sperman Brown two semi-test correlation analyses in order to ensure the reliability of scale. One of the ways that has been resorted to determine inner-consistency of scale has been to test sub 27% and top 27% groups of items of average scores differences composed of according to total scores of test by using Independent Samples Test.