THE EFFECTS OF THE TÜRKİYE CENTURY MAARİF MODEL WORKSHOPSUPPORTED LANGUAGE EDUCATION ON STUDENTS' LANGUAGE SKILLS AND MOTIVATION

Despite the fact that parents and students attach great importance to language education in ourcountry, it is evaluated that the desired success is not at the desired level. Language educationshould not be limited to schools, but should be spread throughout life. One of the biggestreasons for not learning a language is the lack of exposure. The second important reason can beshown as the level of interest and desire of the students. For these reasons, it was decided toconduct Workshop-Based Language Education. First, a workshop was opened where studentscan do listening, speaking, reading and writing activities outside of normal class hours. In thisworkshop, both normal language lessons are taught and learning environments are providedwhere students can spend time in their other times. An interactive studio workshop was alsoopened as an integration to our workshop. In the research, a single group pre-test post-testsimple experimental model was used from quantitative research methods. The universe of theresearch is high school students, and the sample is 9th and 10th grade students studying in asecondary school in Kayseri. Within the scope of the study, “English Placement Test(Intermediate)” was created to determine the language skill levels of the students. In addition,a 3-month “Workshop-Based Language Education Program” was prepared. When the resultsof the pre-test and the post-test repeated after the program were analyzed, it can be said that theforeign language education given in the workshops was beneficial. In addition, monthly Englishmagazines were published under the name of “SEZENGLISH” within the scope of theworkshop studies. English-Turkish, Turkish-English book translations were done. Ourstudents’ practice exams were held in the interactive studio workshop, which is a languageworkshop and an integrated workshop. The practice exams were mostly performance-based(Theater, podcast, presentation, etc.). It was determined that these studies caused a significantincrease in the students’ language level and encouraged them to learn the language in nonschool environments. Considering the problems in language education, lack of exposure andstudents’ reluctance, it can be said that workshop-based language education is beneficial inincreasing students’ motivation and level of English.