Abstract :
Aim of this study is to present learner autonomy behavior of students who learn Turkish as a foreign language and to develop a scale to determine if these behaviors are appropriate for them or not. Stages -developing item pool, expert opinion, participant confirmation, pre-application, acceptability and reliability analysis- are applied when developing the scale. To develop assessment tool, application was performed with 356 students who learn Turkish in Gaziantep University and Kilis 7 Aralık University Turkish teaching centers. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to 240 of these students, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to 116 people. As a result of these analysis, a scale structure with two factors consisting of 18 articles was revealed. Factors were named as “Planning” and “Process” according to content of the articles. When Cronbach Alpha reliability co-efficient was looked, it was 0,88 for the general of the scale, ,75 for the first factor and , 82 for the second factor. It is detected as a result of analysis that the scale which assesses the attitude and behavior for learner autonomy of foreign students who learn Turkish is acceptable and reliable.
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Learner autonomy , teaching Turkish to foreigners , developing a scale , language teaching , responsibility
