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- Title
DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ AUTHENTIC MATERIAL USE SCALE (FLTAMUS).
- Authors
ÇABUK, Elif; AKMAN YEŞİLEL, Deren Başak
- Abstract
The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine foreign language teachers’ purposes of using authentic material. To develop this scale, inventories and literature concerning the subject have been reviewed. Twenty foreign languages teachers were asked to write paragraphs on authentic materials. An item pool of 44 items was created, corrected, and reduced, taking experts’ opinions. It was seen that the scale could consist of four subscales, which are increasing student motivation, enriching the course content, increasing the quality of teaching, introducing real-life/culture. A five-point Likert-type pilot form consisting of 25 items was created considering experts’ opinions and administered to 146 English language teachers working in public and private schools. As a result of the chi-square difference test for nested models, it was found that the model data fit of the four-factor model was significantly higher compared to the one-factor model (Δχ2(6) = 88.42, p<.001). The confirmatory factor analysis showed that the designed four-factor model complied well with the data and explained them better than the one-factor model and supported the researchers' observations. The analysis showed that the four factors designed FLTAMUS had construct validity. Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficients of the subscales varied between .65 and .91 and were quite reliable and highly reliable. The applied validity and reliability analyses showed that the scale had four structures as designed and was a valid and reliable measurement tool that could measure foreign language teachers’ use of authentic materials.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE teachers; ENGLISH teachers; CONFIRMATORY factor analysis; CRONBACH'S alpha; CHI-squared test; ACADEMIC motivation
- Publication
Ondokuz Mayis University Journal of Education, 2022, Vol 41, Issue 1, p311
- ISSN
1300-302X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7822/omuefd.1025117