标题：TÜRKİYE’DE ERKEN ÇOCUKLUK DÖNEMİNDEKİ ÇOCUKLARIN DİL GELİŞİMLERİ İLE İLGİLİ YAPILAN LİSANSÜSTÜ TEZLERİN İNCELENMESİ AN ANALYSIS OF THE POSTGRADUATE DISSERTATIONS ON THE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CONDUCTED IN TURKEY
期刊名称：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGES' EDUCATION AND TEACHING
印刷版ISSN：2198-4999
电子版ISSN：2198-4999
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：201-216
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出版社：AV Aktuell Verlag GmbH
摘要：The purpose of this study is to analyze the thematic distribution of the master and PhD dissertations on language development in early childhood conducted in Turkey between the years 1995 and 2015. Qualitative research methods and techniques were employed in the study. Document analysis was employed for data collection. Frequency (f) was used to analyze the data. This study includes postgraduate dissertations registered at the Thesis Documentation Center of the Council of Higher Education (YOK) accessed via the key words “language acquisition”, “language development”, “language acquisition”, and “child and language”. 91 theses which is 75 master and 16 PhD appropriate for the research purposes were accessed. The theses under scrutiny were classified by the institute and the university which are made, the year which are made, research design and data analysis which are used. The theses under scrutiny were categorized into 4 groups by researchers: (1) the relationship between language and development and various variables, (2) language acquisition, (3) developing or adapting measurement tools to evaluate language development, and (4) second language learning and teaching/bilingualism. The results indicate that most of the theses scrutiny are in the relationship between language and development and various variables categorize. More specific related work of the field researchers are advised to focus on original issues and work to correct deficiencies. It is believed that this study will contribute to the literature and be useful to offer new perspectives for future studies in that it focuses on the studies on language development in early childhood comprehensively.
