Computer-assisted literature teaching with emphasis on the short story

The present thesis focuses on the historical development of education, the teachingmethods, computer-assisted teaching in general, and the effect of the computerassisted literatureteaching with the aim of teaching language, in particular.In this thesis, an experimental study was carried out to show whether there is a significantdifference between the computer-assisted literature teaching and the traditional method inlanguage classrooms. It was hypothesized that the success of learners, who have been taughtliterature in the language classrooms with computer assisted teaching method, is higher than thesuccess of learners who have been taught with traditional teaching methods. This experimentalstudy was done with thirty-two students in the eleventh class in Tavsanlı Anatolian High Schooland Tavsanlı Anatolian Teacher?s Training High School in the eight week during the educationalyear of 2005- 2006. In this experimental study, 2-group pretest-posttest design was used. Therewere sixteen students in each group. After the random assignment, the group in TavsanlıAnatolian High School was chosen as the experimental group, and the group in TavsanlıAnatolian Teacher?s Training High School was chosen as the control group. In order to find outwhether there was a significant difference between the two groups or not pretest was applied tothe each group. Pre-test marks of the experimental group and the control group were checked,and, `t? test was applied to the data. It was understood that the two groups had had nearly thesame levels before studying with the computerassisted teaching or traditional method.The experimental group studied with computer-assisted learning method, and the controlgroup studied with the traditional method, and then the test sheet that had been used as pre-testwas used as post-test. `t? test was used to analyze the data of students? posttest grades. The resultsof the`t? test showed that there was not a significant difference between the two groups. Thus, thehypothesis of this thesis, ?the success of learners?, who have been taught literature in thelanguage classrooms with computer assisted teaching method, is higher than the success oflearners who have been taught with traditional teaching methods? could not be verified.