Karakaş Kurt Esra, Güneyli Ahmet
Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education, Education Faculty, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Department of Turkish and Social Sciences Education, Education Faculty, European University of Lefke, Lefke, Cyprus.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 27;14:1120701. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1120701. eCollection 2023.
There are many foreign students in higher education in Northern Cyprus. Both the academic and life skills of these students depend on attaching the necessary importance to their Turkish language teaching. The goal of this study is to examine how university students employ learning technology, twenty-first-century abilities, and perceived categories of intelligence in the process of learning a foreign language.
In line with the quantitative research design, this study utilized a descriptive approach. Purposeful and convenience sampling methods were used to create the study sample. As a result, the institution in Northern Cyprus with the largest international student body was chosen. At this university, one of the authors of this study has been employed, and Turkish is the language of teaching. The study sample consisted of 431 university students who took Turkish as a foreign language in the 2021-2022 academic year at the selected university.
The results of the study revealed a weak yet statistically significant correlation between twenty-first-century skills and usage of foreign language-learning technologies. Additionally, students' twenty-first-century skill scores differed significantly, whereas their foreign language-learning technology scale scores did not match their self-perceived intelligence types.
The research's findings indicate that students in higher education possess twenty-first-century skills. Based on this finding, it is possible to engage students in the courses and accomplish effective foreign language acquisition if foreign language education is carried out in accordance with modern methodologies and based on twenty-first-century abilities. It has been revealed in this study that it is important to include social learning rather than individual and competitive learning in foreign language education classes.
北塞浦路斯的高等教育中有许多外国学生。这些学生的学术和生活技能都取决于对其土耳其语教学给予必要的重视。本研究的目的是考察大学生在学习外语的过程中如何运用学习技术、21世纪技能以及感知到的智力类别。
根据定量研究设计，本研究采用了描述性方法。采用目的抽样和便利抽样方法来创建研究样本。结果，选择了北塞浦路斯国际学生人数最多的机构。在这所大学，本研究的一位作者受雇于此，且教学语言为土耳其语。研究样本由431名在2021 - 2022学年于所选大学将土耳其语作为外语学习的大学生组成。
研究结果显示，21世纪技能与外语学习技术的使用之间存在微弱但在统计学上显著的相关性。此外，学生的21世纪技能得分差异显著，而他们的外语学习技术量表得分与自我感知的智力类型不匹配。
该研究的结果表明，高等教育中的学生具备21世纪技能。基于这一发现，如果外语教育按照现代方法并基于21世纪能力来开展，就有可能让学生参与课程并实现有效的外语习得。本研究表明，在外语教育课程中纳入社会学习而非个人和竞争性学习很重要。
