As a classroom language, students’ attitudes towards speaking Turkish in English prep classes

The aim of this study is to examine English preparatory class students’ attitudes towards the reasons for using Turkish while learning a foreign language (English). A five-point Likert type scale consisting of 28 items was developed to measure students’ attitudes towards using the target language and the native tongue as a medium in the classroom. The scale, then, was administered on randomly chosen 172 preparatory class students (98 female, 74 male). Factor analysis, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were carried out; for the data distribution, frequency, percentage and means were calculated. No significant difference was found out among the sub-scales in terms of age and gender.