The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of applying the writing letter activity of writing to learn strategies on the English Language Academic Achievement and Attitude level of 11 th grade students. The research was carried out with 84 students (43 male, 41 female) at one of the state schools in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Mixed method was used in the research. A non-equivalent control group model which is one of the quasi-experimental methods was used in the quantitative part of the research. Simple Past Tense Achievement Test (SPTAT) developed by the researcher and Attitude to English Lesson Questionnaire (AELQ) developed by were used to obtain the quantitative data. Structured interview questions were asked to the six students chosen from the experimental groups using the maximum variety technique. At the end of the research, it is detected that using writing to learn strategies in English classes makes statistically significant difference for the benefit of experiment groups on the level of academic success and attitude to lesson.

Bu araştırmanın amacı ortaöğretim kurumlarında 2014-2015 eğitim öğretim yılından itibaren uygulanmakta olan Destekleme ve Yetiştirme Kurslarına (DYK) ilişkin öğrenci görüşlerini belirlemektir. Araştırma nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan tarama modeli kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Veri toplama aracı olarak araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilen beşli Likert tipi Destekleme ve Yetiştirme Kurslarına İlişkin Öğrenci Görüşleri Anketi (DYKİGA) kullanılmıştır. Ölçeğin güvenirlik ve geçerlilik çalışmaları 536 (326 bayan, 210 erkek) ortaöğretim öğrencisiyle gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu Türkiye'nin Batı Karadeniz Bölgesi'nin Kuzey Batısında yer alan iki ilindeki 615 (414 bayan, 201 erkek) ortaöğretim öğrencisinden meydana gelmiştir. Elde edilen veriler genel olarak değerlendirildiğinde DYK'ya ilişkin öğrenci görüşlerinin olumlu olduğu ve bazı değişkenlere (cinsiyet, okul yerleşkesi, sınıf seviyesi) göre farklılık gösterdiği fakat okul türü değişkenine göre anlamlı bir farklılığın olmadığı ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu farklılıklar hakkındaki değerlendirmelere tartışma ve sonuç bölümünde detaylı olarak yer verilmiştir.

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AbsractThe main question of the study is "What are the impacts of Writing To Learn (WTL) and Writing To Communicate (WTC) activities on the academic success of the English learning students?". This study aims to compare the effects of WTL and WTC activities on academic success of students in English lessons. The study was carried out with 59 (27 male, 32 female) nineth grade high school students in 2015-2016 in Turkey. One of the quantitative designs, quasi-experimental design with nonequivalent control group was used in the study. Experimental group had 30 students (16 female, 14 male) and control group had 29 students (16 female, 13 male). Present Perfect Tense Academic Achievement Test (PPTAAT) and Rubrics developed by the researcher were used as data collection tools in the study. Students in the experiment group wrote "WTL letters" and the control group students wrote "WTC letters" for four weeks as inclass and homework assignments. There are four hypotheses of the research and anlyses were made to prove the correctness of them. All of the hypotheses were corrected based on the results. As a result of the study, it was detected that there is a statistically meaningful difference for the benefit of the experimental group. It can be said that writing WTL letter helps students learn English better than writing WTC letter. Teachers can be recommended to change the way they use writing from WTC to WTL.

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