The effect of music context activities on Turkish language skills

Teaching Turkish is based on a series of trainings to develop four basic language skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing). In order to carry out this education in a systematic way, the Turkish Curriculum consisting of achievements and textbook activities prepared according to the program were written. Turkish lessons are carried out with activities that enable the acquisition of acquisitions according to grade levels. Measurement and evaluation studies are also handled within the framework of the acquisition of gains. For this reason, the qualities of the activities come to the fore in the acquisition of gains. It is very important in terms of quality that the activities that meet the gains consist of interdisciplinary studies and teach while having fun. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of music-based activities on the acquisition of basic language skills in Turkish teaching to sixth grade students. The research was conducted with the 6th grade students of Seyhan Sakarya Secondary School in Adana province, Seyhan district, in the 2019-2020 Academic Year. The implementation process of the study, in which musical activities were used, lasted 12 weeks. Mixed research method was used in the study in which qualitative and quantitative data were used together. Music-related activities were prepared for the achievements of each language skill area, and a quasi-experimental design with comparative pre-test-post-test experiment-control group was used to measure the acquisition of skills. A total of 68 sixth grade students participated in this research, 34 of which were in the experimental group and 34 in the control group. Quantitative data of the research; Listening and reading skill achievement tests, speaking and writing skill graded scoring scales were collected with a personal information form. Qualitative data, on the other hand, were created through interviews applied after the lessons. While the MEB Turkish lesson was taught with 6th grade Turkish textbook activities in the control group students, the lessons consisting of musical activities were taught in the experimental group students. The data of the quantitative part of the research were analyzed and interpreted by using SPSS 23.0. In the analysis of the data, arithmetic mean, t-test for dependent groups, t-test for independent groups, frequency and percentage calculations were made. In the analysis of qualitative data, descriptive analysis technique was used. Considering the findings of the study, there is no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of language skills before the experiment. However, after the experiment, it was determined that there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of the development of language skills. This difference is especially seen in the field of speaking skills. Considering the students' opinions as well as the quantitative data, it is understood that language skills activities with music content are effective in terms of the development of each skill area.