THE ABILITY TO COMPOSE TEXT OF TURKISH TEACHER CANDIDATES

Abstract

Each of the language skills is tool to install person’s environmentand his communication with himself correctly. One of the those skills, writing is one’s self expression in concrete form. The purpose of the research is to determine in the text of the - word, sentence, paragraph level- writing skills in fourth grade students in Mustafa Kemal University Education Faculty. In this research which is in descriptive scanning model, “Gradational Scoring Key about Turkish Teacher Candidates' Composing Text Level” and “Writing Form” were used. At the end of the research, the significant differences were determined between the average level of Turkish teacher candidates to compose text and the average level of male teacher candidates to compose text. While Turkish teacher candidates who are in fourth grade found that 81% succesuful in “word level”, the level of success is down to 63% in the “sentence level”. At the same time, quite a few of teacher candidates 21% demonstrated success in the “paragraph level”. Accordingly, teacher candidates in composing text have determined that they show a minimum level of success in “paragraph”.

Keywords

• Word
• Sentence
• Paragraph
• Text
• Writing Skill