Rhyme table application on secondary school students' atti̇tudes of wri̇ti̇ng a poem with experimental design method

Rhyme Table Application On Secondary School Students' Attitudes of Writing a Poem with Experimental Design Method. In this study, it is aimed to decide the impact of Rhyme Table Application on secondary school students' attitudes of writing a poem with Experimental Design Method. The control group includes students of 8-E and 8-C classes of a Secondary School in Kütahya and the experimental group includes 8-A and 8-D classes of the same school. There are totally 60 students of 2016-2017 Academic Year in this study group. Literature search was done to prepare data collection tools. While there are lots of documents related to writing, there aren't enough related to writing a poem. Therefore, a poem writing attitude scale and grading key are developed to be used in this study. First of all, the experiment and control groups are applied "Poem Writing Attitude Scale", developed by the researcher, in the pre-test part and the attitudes of students towards writing a poem are determined. Then, both groups are supposed to write a poem of the same topic, and the poems are evaluated using the grading key developed by the researcher. The students in the experiment group are made to write a poem with the help of "Rhyme Table Application" developed and tested by the researcher. On the other hand, students in the control group write their poems by making use of the methods called "Sensory Poem Writing" and "Creative Writing 'in the Turkish lesson curriculum of Ministry of Education, which is done with the help of course book according to the learning outcomes. Later the same tests are applied to the groups as the last test. At the end of the research, it can be seen that there is a meaningful difference in the attitudes of students between writing by using "Rhyme Table Application" and the attitudes of students writing with "Sensory and Creative Writing" methods. The best poems written in that term are sent to the contests. Keywords: Poem, poem writing, Rhyme Table Application, Sensory Writing, Creative Writing