ERIC Number: EJ1363535
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
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Developing Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes and Motivation through Educational Games: Action Research
International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, v9 n3 p569-589 Sep 2022
This study aims to improve the writing skills, motivation towards writing, and writing attitudes of elementary school students through educational games by eliminating the problems they encounter in the writing process. The study was designed within the scope of cooperative action research, and criterion sampling was used for the sample selection. The data collection tools included Writing Attitude Scale, Writing Motivation Scale, Analytical Rubric for Assessing writing, interview forms, educational games, and action plans. The qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed using a series of data analysis techniques. The quantitative results showed that the participants' post-test mean scores in such dimensions of using educational games as attitude, motivation, and writing skill development in the writing teaching process were higher than their pre -test mean scores. The qualitative results revealed that the educational games could be used as an effective technique in teaching writing to develop participants' positive attitudes towards writing, increasing their motivation, improving their writing skills, and eliminating writing problems. Based on the results, it could be stated that different techniques, such as educational games, should take place more in the process by considering the affective factors in teaching writing.
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation, Educational Games, Action Research, Elementary School Students, Skill Development, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Grade 4, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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