The impact of motivational competence of Turkish language and literay teachers on students' achievement

The learning motivation is defined as responding positively to the learning activities, valuing them and profiting by those activities of learners. The lack of motivation often makes students studying less and directing to activities not related with education (having time with friends, talking over the phone, watching television). Studying should be a boring occupation for a student in such a situationIt is known that the reflection and sensation competence of students for their expectation, necessity would be different and hence they should be motivated differently. Students should behave with prejudice against learning experiences, teachers and many variables that effects learning process. This situation sometimes should affect the learning success in a negative way. Consequently the attitudes of students towards learning must be evaluated with objective criteria and regular feedback must be given to them about their negative prejudices. Thus a productive and efficient learning environment should be established.Literature education is an important focal part of modern education. Because, literature education is an important education discipline that helps individuals to develop themselves by providing opportunities to develop self, organize good relations with others, tell self to others, live in harmony with self and environment.In this research before field study, the related literature was reviewed to examine what must be done to have more positive results in ?Turkish Language and Literature? education. After the literature review, a questionnaire was developed to measure the motivation competence of students for ?Turkish Language and Literature? course with the help of experts that their views were also asked. The questionnaire developed was given to 10th grade ?Turkish Language and Literature? students selected randomly from Kadıköy, Üsküdar and Maltepe regions in İstanbul.The data derived by questionnaires were analyzed statistically with SPSS program and some findings related with motivation competence levels of ?Turkish Language and Literature? students were found. Those findings were interpreted in the discussion section of research and placed in the results and suggestions section to provide addition to motivation competence of students.