Abstract
“LEARNER AUTONOMY SCALE” DEVELOPMENT STUDY ON TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Aim of this study is to present learner autonomy behavior of students who learn Turkish as a foreign language and to develop a scale to determine if these behaviors are appropriate for them or not. Stages -developing item pool, expert opinion, participant confirmation, pre-application, acceptability and reliability analysis- are applied when developing the scale. To develop assessment tool, application was performed with 356 students who learn Turkish in Gaziantep University and Kilis 7 Aralık University Turkish teaching centers. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to 240 of these students, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to 116 people. As a result of these analysis, a scale structure with two factors consisting of 18 articles was revealed. Factors were named as “Planning” and “Process” according to content of the articles. When Cronbach Alpha reliability co-efficient was looked, it was 0,88 for the general of the scale, ,75 for the first factor and ,82 for the second factor. It is detected as a result of analysis that the scale which assesses the attitude and behavior for learner autonomy of foreign students who learn Turkish is acceptable and reliable.
Keywords
Learner autonomy, teaching Turkish to foreigners, developing a scale, language teaching, responsibil