Teaching foreign culture through songs

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Ondokuz Mayıs University, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

Approval Date: 2019

Thesis Language: English

Student: ÖZGÜR KARADENİZ

Supervisor: Nalan Kızıltan

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to use English songs as a method in teaching foreign culture. This study is an experimental and a comparative study. This study has tried to determine the efficiency levels of teaching foreign culture through songs and through classical reading texts. 10 songs and texts have been randomly selected for this study. 50 students of 11th grade from an Anatolian High School in Turkey have taken part in the study. An experimental group of 25 students and a control group of 25 students have been formed. In the following processes, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 program has been used in all the analyses during the study. First, a questionnaire has been applied to measure the disposition of the experimental group in learning foreign culture. When the disposition questionnaire has been evaluated, it has been detected that the experimental group is highly eager to learn foreign culture through songs. In addition, it has been analyzed how this disposition has emerged between female and male students in the experimental group. In the analysis, it has been identified that the female students seem more inclined to learn foreign culture through songs than the male students. Then, the culture teaching process has been carried out. The teaching of culture has been applied to the experimental group by using English songs and to the control group through reading texts. At the end of the teaching process, a joint exam has been applied to both groups. Students' scores from the exam have been analyzed, and it has been observed that the experimental group who were taught culture through the songs has achieved a more successful result than the control group who were taught culture through the reading texts. Finally, the evaluation of the success of the exam in female and male students in the experimental group has been done; as a result of this evaluation, it has been seen that the female students have had a more successful result than the male students. This result has been found to be in the same direction in the control group as well.