The matter of foreign terminology in the education of biology and the study of Turkish terminology

This study is conducted to indicate the matter of foreign terminology in the instruction methods of biology education. Foreign originated terms are identified within the junior high school biology textbooks and students are allowed to determine the level of comprehension of the given terminology.The tool used for data collection is the achievement test (biology terminology questionnaire) prepared to evaluate the level of comprehension of the foreign originated terminology among the students.The sampling of this study is composed of the students enrolled to science major junior and senior classes (totals to 762 subjects) in Alparslan Anadolu High School, Atatürk Anadolu High School, Gazi Çiftliği High School and Mimar Sinan High School into 2007-2008 fall semester.For the statiscal analysis SPSS program has been utilized, responses of the students to the given questions are calculated by the frequency (f) and percentage (%) measures.The results of the statistical analysis, among the state high school students; junior class students? average achievement percentage is 35.8%, senior class students? average achievement percentage is 46.9%. Among the Anadolu High School students; junior class students? average achievement percentage is 58.2%, senior class students? average achievement percentage is 70.4%.The average percentages of achievement rates came out less than expected. The general scored of Anadolu high schools were higher than those of the state high school students. Both the senior class students from state and Anadolu high schools scored were higher than the junior classes of all schools subject to this study on the given test.As a result; intense usage of foreign vocabulary has been detected in the biology textbooks. Foreign vocabularies utilized for biology education have adverse effects on the students? achievement rates, students face difficulties on perceiving and comprehending the foreign terminology.