Evaluation of Elementary Education 6th Grade Turkish Workbook from The Point of Constructivist Grammar Teaching

Evaluation of Elementary Education 6th Grade Turkish Workbook from The Point of Constructivist Grammar Teaching

Eroğlu, Süleyman

The skill area of language covers listening/watching, reading, speaking and writing; the knowledge area covers grammar. Grammar is the set of rules supporting basic language skills. It is important for students to learn about the rules and knowledge composing the structure and function of a language so that they can support other skills. Undoubtedly, the way of functional and permanent grammar teaching is firstly to explain about the knowledge and rules of language and then to construct them. The presence of such an understanding in grammar teaching is possible primarily through the presence of a Turkish Course Teaching Program prepared as based on constructivist approach and the presence of teaching materials formed parallel to this. It is known that course books as a teaching material play an important role in having students acquire certain skills. At this point, it is obvious that there is a need to determine if course books possessing great importance were prepared in accordance with the constructivist approach. The present study aimed to evaluate the 6th Grade Turkish Workbook, one of the Turkish teaching materials and expected to have been prepared in accordance with the constructivist approach and still in use; it also aimed to determine the extent to which the various activities in grammar teaching area included in the book meet the requirements of the constructivist approach

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2010-06

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