Developing Attitude Scale and Determining Its Psychometric Qualities in Learning Grammar

Abstract

Grammar has always been the leading concept that is discussed both linguistically and educationally in history. Placing linguistic aspect on one side, how much and how grammar should be taught and the relationship of grammar with language skills are the topics that dwelled on most in educational environments. Attitude, which is one of the basic variables of teaching process, also has an important place in this matter. Attitudes towards grammar are needed for students to adjust their feelings about the content of grammar and their eagerness to learn these. Although there are tools in literature to measure attitudes towards language skills, there are not many attitude scales about grammar. The purpose of this research is to develop a standard measurement tool that scales the attitudes of secondary school students towards learning grammar. During the development of the scale, a group of 360 students from 6th, 7th and 8th grades have been included in the application. After presenting the articles to students in five point Likert, the collected data first underwent an exploratory factor analysis. The Cronbach Alpha Internal Consistency coefficient that has been calculated to determine the reliability of the scale that has been collected in three factors has been found 0.914. After that, confirmatory factor analysis has been applied and a valid and reliable measurement tool has been achieved. The developed scale can be considered an important measurement tool that can be utilized in researches that will be conveyed about learning and teaching processes aimed at grammar.