Research Information System
Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Turkey
Approval Date: 2017
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: Merve Ceylan
Supervisor: MUSTAFA ULUSOY
Abstract:The aim of the current study is to investigate the effects of feedback and writing on a computer in improving the writing skills of fourth grade students enrolled in rural areas. In this semi-experimental research, students' writing performance and writing knowledge were measured before and after feedback. Then, the process of writing with feedback and computer use on writing was profoundly and carefully explored through observation, interviews, voice, video records, documents, and student products. Quantitative section of the study was analyzed by using SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and the Nvivo data analysis software was used to analyze the qualitative section of the study. In the study, frequency distribution, reliability analysis, Kruskal Wallis, Friedman and Wilcoxon- Mann Whitney correlation tests were used. The study was conducted with fourth grade students enrolled in a village school of Düzce district in 2015-2016 academic years. Students created of six typing works on computer over the course of 36 hours. The findings indicated that writing on computer and giving feedback enhanced students' ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions in terms of writing quality. Similarly, writing on the computers improved words quality and words counts in students' writings. Giving feedback had a positive impact on students' knowledge about production and writing skills, and it strengthened students' substantive process knowledge through planning, generating ideas, drafting and revising. These findings are expected to present a number of suggestions to researchers, educators and practitioners about how to use and improve the process of writing on computer by integrating with feedback.