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A Study on the Introduction Chapters of Postgraduate Studies on Speaking Skills

Summary/Abstract: Scientific texts have specific chapters. These chapters enable the researcher to design the research, prepare for the research, carry out the research, and interpret the findings and results obtained during the research process, respectively. A scientific text consists of abstract, introduction, method, findings, discussion, conclusion, recommendations, and reference chapters, and these chapters must be known in the process of reporting the research. In these chapters, the introduction is the beginning of the research and includes certain subsections. These subheadings include problem, purpose, significance, assumption, limitations and definitions. The introduction chapters must be created according to the academic principles of these subsections. Academic studies should be examined in this regard to identify the stages where there are deficiencies and to realize what should be taken into consideration when designing the introduction chapters of scientific texts. There are studies in the literature examining chapters such as abstract, method and recommendations in the context of Turkish education. There are studies examining the introduction chapters of articles in the context of education, but the introduction chapters of postgraduate studies differ from articles in terms of their subsections and content. For these reasons, it is concluded that it is necessary to examine the introduction chapters of postgraduate studies. The number of studies examining the studies on speaking skills in the field of Turkish education is limited. Besides, the fact that the introduction chapters of these studies have not been examined in terms of academic principles makes this study, which aims to examine the introduction chapters of postgraduate studies in the field of speaking skills, important. In this context, this study aims to examine the introduction chapters of postgraduate studies on speaking skills. In this study, document review, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The data set of the study consists of master’s theses on speaking skills. The data obtained were examined in the context of the problem statement of postgraduate studies, the significance of the research, limitations and assumptions. In order to examine these titles, data collection tools named “content review form”, “fiction types review form”, “features review form”, “rubric for evaluating the function of the problem statement”, “research significance title review form”, “limitations title review form” and “assumptions title review form” were developed. Descriptive analysis technique was used to analyze the data in the study. As a result of analyzing the data in the study with the descriptive analysis technique, conclusions were reached regarding the problem statement, the significance of the research, limitations and assumptions. Based on these results, the problem statement was evaluated according to the dimensions of content, structure, form, and function. Accordingly, it was determined that in the content dimension of the problem statement, researchers tended to explain general concepts, and in the structure dimension, the problem statement was frequently constructed in a top-down manner. In terms of the function of the problem statement, it was observed that the problem statement sections were at most at a moderate level in terms of their function of creating the theoretical framework; and their functions of grounding the research problem and revealing the reasons and originality of the research were at most at a weak level. According to the results regarding the significance of the research, the significance of research on speaking skills is based on the fact that no previous studies have been found on the most discussed subject. The number of theses in which the importance of the research is not stated is also quite high. Additionally according to the results regarding the limitations title, the most common limitations in the studies are the population, sample and study group. The results regarding the assumptions title show that the most common assumptions in the studies are about the research process. The results obtained in the study show that more academic writing principles should be followed in writing the introduction chapters in postgraduate studies.

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